It has been reserved for Reed and Kellogg from the foundation of the world to catch the Fleeting Thought and marry it to Geometry. O tempora! O mores!
English is rich in puzzles. Its orthography is a conundrum the size of “Webster’s Unabridged.” The foreign crew of printers that followed Caxton made high sport of rigging it out in fantastic shape. Then old Dr. Johnson fetched it a heavy blow with his paw and finished it. Presently China will offer her 50,000 symbols, or the pyramids will tender the use of their hieroglyphs, as a relief from this oppressive system.
Polydore de Keyser, Alderman for Farringdon Without, and a Roman Catholic, has been elected Lord Mayor of London,
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Senator Leland Standford has in view the endowment of a university for California. His purpose is to build it with “a sole regard to the poor,” so that “no rich man’s son will want to come there.” This is as it should be. When the poor boys and girls of America find an opportunity to become educated men and women, they prove to be the strongest and most energetic workers in the cause of enlightenment; and all those who desire the perpetuity of our political, social and religious institutions hail this action of Mr. Standford with a special joy. Now, as never before in this century, does our country need great men at its head; and, if we survive, must we not look, as in the past crises, for our statesmen among the frugal and uncorrupted laboring class? Then let him who, having accumulated a goodly fortune of this world’s goods, desires to be remembered for his benevolence, not forget that in the intellectual and moral education of the masses lies the destiny of the grandest nation on earth.
Nothing is more vital to the welfare of a college than a good library. There is something else connected with the acquisition of an education, besides transferring to the mind the contents of text-books. It is necessary to get broad ideas and extended information on each subject. This can best be done by obtaining the opinion of several authors on that subject, for it is only when one has come to look at a subject from several standpoints that he can form a correct opinion relative to it. It is here that the library makes its influence felt by affording students access to works which, owing to their cost, they could not own. Those who contend that the function of the library is only supplemental to the college course, should remember that life also is supplemental to the college course, and that the college course is but introductory to the library function, both in turn being introductory to life and all three being links of the chain of enlightened existence, the removal of either of which would be detrimental.