Word: timing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...essay so well describes. Margaret Howitt contributes a pleasant record of her residence in a country town in the Pusterthal. But of all the articles those which interested us most were those on "Salmon Fishing in Canada" and "Cricket in America." The one so attracts us that, were the time at our disposal, nothing would be esteemed a pleasanter amusement than the privilege of capturing this noble fish in the streams of the Dominion. The other is a timely article on a game which in this country is gaining ground slowly, for which, however, its admirers claim much. The present...
...last Magenta. The writer of that article made the mistake of supposing that he had merely to express the ideas of outsiders in simple terms, and their extravagance would be so apparent as to make elaborate refutation unnecessary; hence he gave a concise summary of the arguments that time and again have been used against Harvard by false critics...
...with your contributor upon the main points of his "Religion in Harvard." I need to apologize to you for saying the same things over again, and will urge as my excuse the irony which he employed, and which some seem inclined to take in good earnest. At the same time I hope to add some facts to substantiate his position...
Harvard College, in its printed advertisement, published in the Atlantic some time since, said: "The University respects, and does not seek to influence, the religious opinions of its students." To this it adheres. The topic of religion is not introduced in the College exercises except when the subject necessarily suggests it, - as Philosophy may do. And no influence is exerted to make the students Unitarians. (I bring forward this name, because it is true that the College has a Unitarian pastor. But he is a man apparently as acceptable to Orthodox Congregationalists and Baptists as to Unitarians...
Look now at this large, round rock which used to be left at an unusual time and in an unceremonious manner in H'y. I. On this are pasted the names of different classes, the following being the last that was added to it: "Immittendum. Compliments...