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...cradle; the old willows of Holmes re-echoed with the shouts of lacrosse players when Washington was but a boy. To such an antiquity as this the lacrosse player can well point with pride. As the only really autochthonous and truly American game, rivalled only by tennis as to age and duration of vogue, it certainly should hold a high stand among our college sports...
...Jury System," "Modern Inventions as Related to Human Happiness," "The Influence of Physical Conditions on Moral Character," "Athens in the Time of Pericles," "The University of Oxford," "Author of 'Rob and His Friends,' " "John Quincy Adams," "Partisan History," "Howells as a Critic of American Life," "The Unrest of the Age as Expressed in its Poetry...
Wilbur F. Booth, a student in Yale College, recently appeared before the board of selectmen in New Haven, to be made a voter. He was twenty-one years of age last August, and has been in college two years. His parents reside in Easton, in that State, and the young man has earned his living since he has been in college. He argued his case before the board, and did not succeed in obtaining from them any reason satisfactory to him why he should not be made a voter. But the board held that students in an institution of learning...
...Josiah Quincy died very suddenly at his residence in Quincy yesterday, at the age of 80 years 9 months. He graduated at Harvard in 1821, in the same class with Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...square car, the rest, grimly resolved, returning to brave the terrors of a supper at Young's, and there drown the memory of their sad guilt. Hic jacit the custom of freshman theatre going, not by the hand of prerogative, not as token of failure, but overtaken by old age and debility it dies a natural death...