The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The January Magazines.

postum to appear in the January Cen
tury, describing the feast-days and
special occasions in all the best known
colleges for women in America. 1t is
interesting to notice the strong feeling
against haZing which is shown in each
one of these articles. College girls
seem to do all they can to make the
freshman's lot happy one.
WHY do we have a week of seven
days, with Sabbath at the beginning,
or end, of it? Material for an answer
to this question will be furnished by
the article of the late Colonel A. b.
Ellis, entitled "On the Origin of Weeks
and Sabbaths," to appear in the jan
uary Popular Science Monthly. Colonel
Ellis finds that weeks of four, five,
seven, and ten days, and some that in
clude fractions, have been used by va
rious peoples, but they all appear to be
subdivisions of the lunar month.
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circulated that in points where the
speech of England and the United
States differs the speech of England is
necessarily the standard. In curl
ously and entertainingly instructive
paper, printed in Harper'S Magazine for
January, Henry Cabot Lod ye shows
that many of the expressions contempt
uously referred to by British writer's as
" Americanisms are found in Shake
speare, where they are used with pre-
cisely the same meanings that now at
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