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...been wisely approved by the almost unanimous verdict of English public-school men, masters, boys and 'old boys,' as the best of disciplinary sports and pastimes with a view to the improvement of the mind - that is to say, the will and spirit, which does not grow strong by book-learning - as much as to that of bodily strength and vigor...
...conductor of the night car between Cambridge and Boston will be richer one year from now than he is today. The reason is this : About one week ago a passenger lost a pocket-book containing five hundred dollars, and inside the pocket-book was a card bearing the owner's name. The conductor found it and restored it to the owner. The owner did not reward him with the name of his address, but went with him the next morning and deposited the five hundred dollars in a Boston Savings Bank, subject to the conductor's order, one year from...
...well-known professors in philosophy has been in the habit for some time past, of having the men of his courses come to his house separately, after an examination, and read their blue-books to him. Although this is done to save the professor's eyes, at the same time the practice combines many very material advantages. For although almost every one is dissatisfied with the result accomplished on an examination paper, or with the mark returned, there is usually no method of finding out in what one was right or wrong. This is especially true of those more indefinite...
...dress is the very daisy of idyllity." The reporter expressed a great yearning to know the name of this fortunate being. He was told that it is Dan'l Pratt - "Not Daniel," said Oscar, "but simplistically beautiful Dan'l." Immediately our reporter excused himself, and after examining the guest-book, the chief of police and several other Boston dignitaries, he found that Mr. Pratt was actually staying at the Vendome - his room was up pretty high, to be sure, but for all that he was at the Vendome. After two or three timid knocks the door was partly opened...
ANOTHER.A book reserved...