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...Chicago) should find a place in every library as the funniest book of the year. Like "Chimmie Fadden," it was originally published in newspaper form and its wonderful popularity induced the publishers to bring it out in book form. It is the story of a typical "mucker" office boy, Artie, whose slangy conversations are extremely funny. He styles all college men as "rah rah boys" and describes them from an office boy's point of view. Mr. McCutcheon's illlustrations, with the decorative buckram cover make it a handsome volume...
TUTOR WANTED.- For a boy of fifteen, must be capable, with good references. Terms reasonable. Address, H. D. T., CRIMSON office...
...Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools. And after a somewhat florid period of youth, his style of writing and speaking became extraordinarily simple and impressive. Lincoln's practice as a country lawyer, his repeated terms in the Legislature of Illinois and even his three years in Congress brought him little reputation...
...these entering classes below eighteen is an open question and there are many and strong arguments against doing so. To begin with, a man gets more good from a university education if he is somewhat matured when he enters. He takes life more seriously than the boy of seventeen. He feels the obligations that he is under, and he approaches his work with earnestness of purpose, and is quick to see and take advantage of his opportunities. It is useless to expect an attitude of this kind in the average boy of seventeen. Perhaps this is to be deplored...
...Copeland began by stating the main facts and events of Johnson's life. Johnson, Samuel, the son of a bookseller of unusual intelligence and hypochondriac constitution, was born at Litchfield in the year 1709. From a dame school the boy went to the grammar school of the town. He left it at the age of sixteen and for two years helped his father in the bookshop. One incident of this period resulted fifty years later in Johnson's only connection with Litchfield after boyhood which the world takes note of. His father begged...