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...ever gave me such pleasure as your friendly words. The proverb tells us that "he who plants pears, plants for his heirs." I seem to myself (and it is no small gratification to an old man) to be tasting fruit from a tree of my own setting as I read what you say to me. I shall treasure your letter with its long list of signatures as the most precious collection of autographs I could leave to my descendants. No doubt many of the names will one day have the same price in the eyes of the world...
...petition to Mr. James Russell Lowell, we have the privilege of printing his letter in reply. It is with deep regret that we learn of Mr. Lowell's determination to deny our earnest request. However we must be reconciled to it, the more readily, as no one can read this letter without feeling that Mr. Russell himself was deeply touched by this appeal from the students and that it was to his own regret that he found himself unable to comply with their request...
TUTORING in Pol. Econ. 4 and History 12 (with notes used by J. M. Thompson, '86,) W. ALEXANDER, 24 Read's Block...
...Monsieur le Cure" is a pretty little tale with an evident moral. It deserves to be read because of the good lesson of self-sacrifice which it teaches, a lesson which, in the case of many of us, would not be wasted...
...last-if we have read the while aright...