[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from November 2 (reply #15) .

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[Tax-chick]

The horse pictures are beautiful, and the one of the poor Imperial Prince of France is sad. Is he in that ridiculous frock because he’s not yet toilet-trained? Do the French even have toilets in 1857?

[Tax-chick]

I hope to find time to read all about the horrible murder, of which the reportage begins on page 5. It’s interesting that Harper’s coverage starts, not with facts, but with moralizing about motives and, “Oh, young people today ...”. Opinion pieces in the news sections are obviously not a new phenomenon!

[BroJoeK]

This is their election eve edition, and I looked to see what discussions on slavery we might find -- didn't see any.

Did I miss it, or is slavery just not a big issue to Harper's readers in November 1858?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from November 6 (reply #4).]

November 9. Much engaged of late with Bidwell and William Curtis Noyes, trying to secure them as lecturers in our Columbia College Law School. Effort not desperate but rather promising, though Noyes is a director or trustee of the New York University on Washington Square., which has started a law school of its own with Judge Clerke and Peter Y. Cutler for its teachers.

Lord says: “Clerke is equally ignorant on every subject, but if Cutler be more ignorant of any one branch of legal science than of any other, his weak point is undoubtedly the law of real estate,” his specialty in this precious course of the New York University.

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