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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thought of taking Chemistry 1 to find out how to make soda; but a friend told me that he knew no more of Chemistry after taking the course than before it, which discouraged me. And so on through the whole pamphlet, there's not a course which I have n't heard spoken against. (I must say, however, that the only objection to Botany was that it tired one so to get to recitation...
Miscellaneous.- By the will of Mrs. Faber, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Wesleyan gets...
...comment. For about a week the Dartmouth has probably been half tickled with the republication, half annoyed that there was no pointing out of special beauties. We strongly suspect that in a few days the Darimouth will be thankful the Advocate did not comment, and rather wish it had n't published...
...chair and cosily seating himself at Renardy's elbow, while he produced a pamphlet from his little black valise, - "eh? Well, you never saw anything so valuable as this. Here's George Washington, the Father of his Country; there's his moral nature, very large - veneration, conscientiousness, could n't tell a lie, you know, when his father...
...Washington; and then again he tries to convince me that he's just the man for assistant librarian; but I don't think he's got presence and majesty enough for that. Just bring the result of your long study and remarkable ability to bear on him. I have n't got time, just now, to figure up the precise value of your service to him, but - " I went into another room and closed the door...