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...dare hope for no such good fortune. The toiling editor may, for all time to come, so far as we can see, be likened to Issachar, of whom it is written, "Yea, but he shall be likened unto an ass bending beneath two burdens," -stop a minute; there is something in that quotation that seems hardly to apply to the point in question; let us say, for instance, porter instead of ass; then the scriptural words will suit our case exactly...
...forget; yea all shall be forgot; yet he'll remember with advantages the deeds he did that...
...comfort of doing what one does without distraction. and so of doing it in the most healthy condition of one's faculties, is to establish the habit of anticipation in work. Have some fresh intellectual acquisition always in hand. Some students, after getting fairly settled, merely work on from yea to year with the materials of knowledge already acquired. This is not wise. If the student wants to make steady, healthful growth, he should always have by him some one new study, something in hand that he can turn to from day to day, and give to it at least...
After a session of four hours' duration the board of overseers of Harvard College yesterday refused to concur with the corporation in conferring the degree of LL.D. upon His Excellency Governor Butler. The corporation recommended that the honor be voted, but by a yea and nay vote of 11 to 15, the board of overseers refused to concur. The members voted as follows...
...vote, which may fairly be regarded as significant of the attitude of members of the board of overseers towards many similar propositions as well, stood: Yea-William Amory, William C. Endicott, Richard M. Hodges, Edward W. Hooper, Theodore Lyman, Robert M. Morse, Jr., Henry W. Paine, Francis E. Parker, Le Baron Russell, Stephen Salisbury, Leverett Saltonstall, Robert D. Smith-12. Nay-Phillips Brooks, James Freeman Clarke, Charles W. Elliot, Henry P. Kidder, Alexander McKenzie, John T. Morse, Jr., Francis G. Peabody, John T. Sargent, Edwin P. Seaver, Moorefield Storey, Morrill Wyman-11. The final decision of the question rests with...