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...least to the Editors of the Acta. If these gentlemen were to begin the study of Horace's Odes, they would discover before they had got far (in Lib. I. Ode I, line I, first word), that the name of Horace's chief friend and patron is not spelt Macaenas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

...hoped that in the printing of the new Catalogue Mr. Child will have his name spelt Francis, and not Frances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/26/1877 | See Source »

...sees fit to devote to matters in its own College. The next remarkable thing is the large amount of space it devotes to matters which have to do with no College at all. The last number contains a synopsis of the libretto of "Tannhuser," which at Hanover is spelt with only one n; an account of a palace-car journey from Boston to St. Paul's, Minnesota, in which we learn that Buffalo is "a place of great commercial interest and a great entrepot for the grain of the West"; an abstract of the Eastern Question; and an article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

...over to Jersey City, and after much difficulty find the Cunard wharf. (Observe that the steamer's name is spelt "Russia.") Leave my baggage to be taken care of by an expressman; as we leave the dock I see him driving leisurely down on the wharf with my three trunks in his wagon. Pretend that it is of no consequence, and say nothing about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACROSS THE WIDE OCEAN. | 10/9/1874 | See Source »

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