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...Papajian, of Constantinople, has a number of handsome Turkish articles which he is desirous of selling to members of the University who may be in search of Christmas presents. A visit to his rooms at 4 Divinity Ave., would amply repay...
...thank the college authorities for responding so quickly to the expressed wish of the college men, and feel sure that the attendance at vesper will fully repay the trouble taken to provide them...
...given by Mr. Charles Dickens, the son of the great novelist, on November 1st, at Music Hall, Boston. This is his first appearance in Boston and if we may judge from comments of the English journals, Mr. Dickens is a very accomplished elocutionist and his reading will well repay the trouble of going to hear him. It is understood that his selections will be made entirely from his father's works...
...really the only ones who use the upper part of Holmes field. We can well understand any outcry which may be raised against this unheard-of suggestion, but "fair play" ought to be one of Harvard's mottoes, and we are sure the cricket eleven will repay whatever small amout of care and attention it may please the mighty lords of the athletic association to bestow upon that very deserving but much-abused factor of Harvard atheletics...
Sidney Willard, who was professor at Harvard from 1807 to 1831, in a passage cited by Prof. Young, refers to his small Hebrew classes, and "the general impression" that "the value of such learning does not repay the labor and pains necessary to be undergone in its requirement." Willard is cited as having asked Prof. Stuart whether there were many Hebrew scholars in his classes, and the reply was very few. Still there were able Hebrew and Oriental professors four or five decades ago, and the early professors of Hebrew at the University of the City of New York, Isaac...