Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FACETIOUS Senior asked a Freshman to tell him the difference between a fac-simile and a sick family; but the laugh was on the Senior; for the Freshman instantly replied, "No difference: a sick family is a family that is sick, and fac-simile means 'the same.'" - Williams Review...
...Reform candidate, - the date of his being raised to the peerage, etc. For this the said journal deserves much thanks. But it is surprising to me that none of our magazines or weekly papers have, as yet, given a more extended account of his life, with a review of his literary works. The writer wishes he were equal to the emergency...
...review of President Eliot's Report in our last issue, we gave an extract showing his opinion of the present system of compulsory attendance on recitations. We give below an abstract of an article written by Dr. McCosh of Princeton College, maintaining the opposite view...
...will be written with the design to place before our readers only what is likely to interest them. Generalities are seldom read, and therefore will be omitted in these parts of the paper, and in the column devoted to the theatre as well. From time to time we shall review in a more conspicuous place than usual books that treat of education, or otherwise have a relation to college life...
...contributor to the North American Review and the author of several pamphlets. For some time he held the position of private secretary to John Quincy Adams, and was in Russia with him in that capacity...