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Hodle frequentes convenimus, alumni et amici Universitatis nostrae, in hoc loco quem omnes Harvardiani praecipue fovent coluntque,--in prisco campo, ut ita dicam, studiorum nostrorum. Permuitas hominum actates; ex hoc loco, memoria discipulorum consecrato, profecti sunt per magnas terras ad solis occasum multi, moribus mentibusque bene instituti ut laboribus suis genus humanum ad meliora ducant...
...next President, the Athenoeum might be more entertaining reading. Of the Vassar Miscellany we have little to say, because there is so much to praise, so little to - not condemn, but differ from. It is a model among the monthlies; the department, De Temporibus et Moribus, we have sufficiently commended heretofore . . . The Cornell papers form the strongest possible contrast to the Miscellany, - captious and undignified in manner, engaged in quarrelling with each other, discourteous in the extreme toward other colleges. The Era has disgraced itself in its attack upon Oberlin, whose Review, by the way, is very readable and sensibly...
THERE is little that is better in college literature than the "De Temporibus et Moribus " department of the Vassar Miscellany. It is a compound of Harper's Easy-Chair and the Atlantic's Contributors' Club. Reading its graceful articles is the next best thing to talking with the editors themselves upon the subjects in which they are most interested. The Miscellany's exchange notes are what exchange notes should be, both brilliant and just. The Yale Lit., too, excels in its "Portfolio." It is a very gentlemanly paper, with an easy air that is rather humorous than witty. Its dress...
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