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...quite as well. Strengthened by these advantages, he has succeeded, within the narrow compass of some seven hundred lines, in knocking modern society quite out of time. Any praise of ours must sound feeble after the tribute of one Albert T. Bledsoe, LL. D. and editor of the Southern Review, who has discovered that "the tremendous lash of satire" was not applied "with a more vigorous hand, or with a juster discrimination," by Juvenal, than by our author...
...FELLOW, being warned by the livery-stable man not to "drive that horse too hard," replied that he was going to a funeral, and was bound to keep up with the procession, if it killed the beast." - The Williams Review...
...department of Geology the criticism is far less valid than it at first appears. Necessarily, Structural Geology must be distinguished from those other divisions, Paleontology and Mineralogy. This course deals only with the forces which have led to the structure of the earth's crust. It is an elementary review of the great agents of formation and change in the character of the solid parts of the earth. It is manifestly out of place to introduce in a study of this kind specimens of fossils and metals. The inspection of these would doubtless be interesting, but when the studies...
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...Williams Review, in an editorial, gives an account of and discusses the late boating convention. In an appreciative manner and a very amusing style, it depicts the disgraceful confusion that there prevailed. The performance it describes as consisting of two pieces, - a carefully prepared farce, entitled "The Packed Committee," and a burlesque, "A Freshman Unmuzzled." Throughout the piece its spirit is well sustained, and its roughing efficient. An extravagant view of the matter, however, is only taken in speaking of the ludicrous position which many of the colleges were made to hold in voting against their own interests. As regards...