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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last made its appearance, as we learn from the card of the publisher, printed in another column. The publication of this most important annual has never before been so long delayed, and in consequence, the students have been rather impatient at the absence of the reference book whose arrival is so eagerly awaited. Since the delay this year was unavoidable, we can only regret its occurrence without feeling called upon to bestow any censure, but it is to be hoped that next year such arrangements will be made as will enable the editor of the work in question to place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/12/1885 | See Source »

...pleasant to think that Harvard is to have a substantial and lasting memorial of Longfellow, whose services for eighteen years as professor of belles-lettres contributed much to the renown of the university. It is especially gratifying to think that this tribute to the man whose memory is so dear to all of us should come from those English cousins across the Atlantic whose appreciation of him as a poet was almost, if not fully, as great as that of his own friends and countrymen. The act is only another instance of the growing feeling of friendship which is fast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/6/1885 | See Source »

...whose examinations come in such a way as to compel them to do some studying during the recess, would do all their work in the first few days and then rest entirely, they would be much more benefited than if they worked in a desultory manner all the time. They would probably accomplish more, and would certainly come back to their work at the beginning of the term feeling much more refreshed. The man who has kept up his courses in a conscientious manner during the term, is in need of rest, and every day's application to his studies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/22/1884 | See Source »

...reason. Public opinion in Germany is undoubtedly moving against this academic verdict. A book has just been published which shows that the opposition to such an artificial attempt to restrict the popular tendency is no longer confined to the interested party itself, but is shared even by a man whose well known impartiality and established position give to his views an unusual weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Greek Question Again. | 12/19/1884 | See Source »

...Frederic W. Robertson and the saintly Helm, the author of the hymn, "From Greenlands lacy Mountains," were students of Brasenose College. And so on I might go, but the list of great names is almost endless. Every building is historic, and every walk has traditions of those whose names the world will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford University. | 12/19/1884 | See Source »

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