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During the last two weeks several important meetings have been held by the students of this university. These meetings have, through the good sense and good nature of the students, as a rule, accomplished the business in hand, notwithstanding a severe drawback. This drag upon a business meeting, which ought...
There is no denying that a certain set of young Americans, more particularly in New York and in Boston, affect the Englishman and ape all his affectations. They mimic every English trick in the most snobbish way. They attempt an English accent, and they sprinkle Briticisms freely through their speech...
For insatiable cupidity, unexampled persistence and "monumental gall," the average Memorial Hall waiter can probably never be excelled. When this interesting specimen of sable humanity is not engaged in talking politics or adroitly pilfering from the table of his neighbor, the chances are that he will be filling the ears...
Mrs. Melville has been finally released from the insane asylum in which she was confined, and tells a pitiful story of her husband's treatment of her. She says that she will consult some able attorney, and must and will have a divorce, and her children with it, and that...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The Saturday Review has on several occasions betrayed itself into pitiful errors, which from their very clumsiness increase the offence. Some years ago on the publication of "Plutarch's Morals," done into English by several hands and edited by Prof. Goodwin, the Saturday Review, without regard to...