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...locked up in foreign literatures. But here the benefits of the study are considered to cease. The attribute of developing the student's mind-the highest function which can belong to any branch of learning-is denied to Modern Languages, and attributed exclusively to the classics and sciences. The result of this pre-possession against Modern Languages is, naturally enough, a verification of the general notion. Since nobody believes that mental discipline can be obtained from this sort of study, nobody either studies or teaches the subject in the proper way for getting such discipline. There are no such textbooks...
...quaint old bottle which looked as though it might have come over in that receptacle of all New England relics, the Mayflower. Now although the gentleman in question disclaims any attraction to or for bottles in general, this particular bottle proved too alluring, and a closer inspection was the result...
...wherefore of the present condition of the society is very simple. Last year extra service was hired, extra inducements offered, and the business of the society was enlarged generally. As a result, last year was the first really successful year of the society's existence. Basing their calculations on these results, the superintendent and directors decided on certain additions and enlargements in the business and work of the society, calculating on a membership of one thousand and five per ct. profit on transactions. But it turns out that they have a membership of only 790, with proportionately less transactions...
...esteemed contemporary, the Advocate, has been indulging in a little prophesying on its own account, and the result has been rather startling in its nature. Among the many happenings which this much-gifted prophet foretells for us, one at least we modestly assert will prove incorrect. Others, it is very probable, may be no more correct than this, but of those we do not speak, we lay no claims to the mysterious art of the seer...
...Harvard Art Club, as may be seen by an article in another column, is in a fair way to become a memory, and nothing more. This state of affairs, it is said, is partly the result of a series of unfortunate elections, and partly owing to the slight interest in art among the students, Be this as it may, it seems a pity to have so excellent a society disbanded, especially when it is remembered that the collection of the club, representing the accumulation of many years, will become scattered if the society does break up. We feel confident that...