Chapter III: Part 3

“O! thou shiny orb, that careerest above--
Thy spirit how soothing,--thy light full of love!”

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To foster a literary spirit, and to furnish a medium for its exercise; to rescue from utter waste the many thoughts and musings of a student’s leisure hours; and to afford some opportunity to train ourselves for the strife and collision of mind which we must expect in after life;--such, and similar motives have urged us to this undertaking.

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Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Unexplained right-side asterisks at the ends of three articles or poems on pages 13, 23, and 25, were in the original issue and have been retained here.