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...predominance of the title, "University," in such a list as the above is very significant. Nothing seems to satisfy the vaulting ambition of the Ohio man save a monopoly of national offices and a majority of the universities of the country. The "Ohio idea" evidently extends beyond the sphere of politics...
...Sorosis was omitted when Anacreon's "Phusis" gave beauty to women, and with truly feminine ingenuity she had adopted another method outside the sphere of Nature to attract the masculine attention so dear to her sex. Instead of making the most of her gifts and making her defects as unnoticeable as possible, she subordinated the former to an exaggeration of the latter. Her husband had "struck oil" in Pennsylvania, and had then subsided into a submissive check-signer and reader of the daily papers, a mythical kind of power-behind-the-throne known as "Mrs. De Sorosis' husband...
...Society for Political Education, of which the central branch is in New York, is increasing its sphere of work and bids fair to be successful. Any one can become an active member by paying fifty cents a year, and by promising to read certain books. Harvard students who desire membership can obtain full information from the officers of the Finance Club...
...which, in arrangement and completeness, must long rank first in this country, if not in the world. The completion of Sever Hall, with its improved system of ventilation, and its commodious recitation rooms, supplies a long-felt want. The Zoological Museum also, has been largely added to, and its sphere of usefulness has been proportionately increased. The Yard and the buildings in it have all been more or less improved, and the long-continued demand for plank walks has been at last partially granted. The Faculty, in its attitude towards undergraduates, has given renewed evidence of its often-expressed policy...
...parliamentary procedure, about which so much was said on Thursday evening, can be of little value to most of us. All else that was claimed for the legislative branch can legitimately be secured in the Union as it is; and it would have been extremely imprudent to compromise its sphere of usefulness by trying an experiment of little value if successful...