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...papers were a valuable guide, since they showed the nature of an elective much more clearly than any title or list of books studied could do. In preparing for an examination, also, the papers of past years in that study showed the relative importance of the matter to be reviewed, and were an excellent test of the thoroughness of the review. There were, however, objections against binding up examination-papers with the Catalogue, for this increased the size and price of the book, and compelled each purchaser to buy much that he did not care for. It is proposed...
...status quo of Cornell is lower than it has been at any preceding time.' - Review. The writer evidently thinks that the sine qua non, the multum in parvo, and the sine die still maintain their old standard, but we are unable to glean from the article whether the e pluribus unum and the et tu Brute of Cornell are on the rise or decline, although the reference to the `sub judice questions' may cover the ground." - Yale Courant...
From the above array of names one can see both how rich a mine of literary wealth the Review really is, and how great is the service which Mr. Cushing has done in giving us a ready access to it. A canvass of the College will be made before long, and it is desirable that two hundred copies should be subscribed for among the students of the University. The book will be bound in cloth, and the maximum price will be two dollars and a half...
References : Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets, Lecture I. Edinburgh Review, Vol. 21, art. Madame de Stael sur la Litterature. Christian Examiner, Vol. 24, art. Influence of Christianity and Civilization on Epic Poetry. Shairp's Poetic Interpretations of Nature. Time, Third Tuesday in March...
...wish to call the attention of all students in the University to the catalogue of the North American Review, prepared by Mr. William Cushing of the Harvard Library. A notice of this important work will be found in another column. The Review has now so changed its character as to make it essentially a new magazine, and thus no better time than the present could be found for the publication of an index to its contents. This index will be of especial interest to all Harvard students and graduates, since during its whole life the Review has been essentially...