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...pine forests of this country. At no time, however, has he, I believe, ever considered the explanation suggested by our subject - the alarming growth and extent of the use of wooden toothpicks in this country, requiring for their manufacture, as they do, so large a consumption of native timber. Prof. Sargent's statistics themselves show how forcible a reason this is. Perhaps patriotic considerations and a desire to discountenance the wasteful destruction of our forests, apart from other considerations, may induce the directors at Memorial to introduce quill instead of wooden toothpicks to the tables at the hall...
...large tract of Canadian timber land is in flames, and much valuable cord wood is being destroyed...
...Literary History,"-think of it, gentlemen! And yet such writers as J. F. Clarke and F. H. Hedge, even in their college days, did not lack entertaining thoughts to utter on these and similar subjects. Dr. Holmes had not then given out his chilling dictum that "Knowledge, like timber, should not be much used till seasoned," and students were not, therefore, half-ashamed to have thoughts on such subjects and to speak them out. But then, as Snodkins holds, there are no more Dr. Hedges and Dr. Clarkes on the papers, and we are doubtless spared many inflictions of premature...
...attic, as in University Hall, will consist of a large room devoted to examinations. This hall will be 70 feet in length by 52 in width, the ceiling being plastered instead of being of open timber-work, as is the case in University. The halls and recitation-rooms, professors' apartments and lecture-rooms, will all be furnished with an upright sheathing of ash, four feet high, and beaded with moulded cap and base, producing an inside finish of very fine effect...