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...feel that in the contemplation of his heroic death it may find its truest interpretation. It is thus with mingled feeling that the news of his death has come upon us. We rejoice that he who has departed first from among us has left us the example of an upright life and of an unflinching death. At the same time we feel deep sorrow at our loss and sincere sympathy with his family in their affliction, and it is to give some faint expression of this feeling of sorrow and of sympathy that we have met together...
...learning of the few, but in the intelligence of the many. A national university could not diffuse education, it could only impart to a very few a degree of learning which most men are not ambitious to possess, and which is powerless to make them better citizens or more upright men." Our Vermont friend is also of the opinion that a national university would be a fruitful source of political corruption, and that the management would be fettered by congressional experiments and investigations. "It means that the revolution of parties would be succeeded by the revolution of faculties." Although...
Time was when he could walk upright...
...Columbia papers. Mr. Bancroft has long sustained an honorable connection with the college, both formerly as a student and captain of the University Eight, and latterly as coach of the same crew. His reputation in all his dealings with and for Harvard has always been fair and upright; and without further proof Harvard will be slow to credit any charges brought against his conduct by Columbia...
...sale. - Upright piano, nearly new. Call at 21 Matthews...