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...number of young men have become friendly visitors for the Associated Charities, and have met the poor in their won homes. Others have taken charge of Home Libraries for the Children's Aid Society,- small libraries placed in the homes of poor families, some boy or girl in the family acting as librarian, and the membership of a library including half a score of children from a single neighborhood who meet with their visitor once a week to exchange and talk about the books, read, sing, play games, save their pennies, etc. Another young man has visited a bed-ridden...
WANTED.- A tutor for boy of fourteen. Apply, with highest reference, to Mrs. James Hurd, 6 Cleveland...
...thing, makes much of what is really a very trivial matter. The fact is that the observances in the Yard of the first Monday of the year are among the last relics of the days when the college man had more of the nature of an academy boy. An institution may be hoary with time and yet not be time-honored. Let us put this one aside,- at least the childish part of it, as we have done with the countless schoolboy pranks of the old college days. Above all, let it not be said that Harvard men are influenced...
...Harvard cricket team defeated Lynn Saturday afternoon by a score of 80 to 18. Two of the Harvard eleven did not turn up at the station on account of a mistake in the time announced, so that only nine men went to Lynn. A young boy played in place of one of the two missing men. Lynn went in first to bat, but was unable to do anything with the splendid bowling of Clark and Hastings. For Harvard, Clark batted out over half the runs, making 41. He was retired near the end of the innings by a ball coming...
...unsympathetic teacher and the sympathetic birch rod, an old gentleman came up to me and said: "We don't want any school around here. Years ago we got along without it. I'm going to vote agin it and so's my wife. Daniel Webster, when he was a boy, got it into his head that he had to study books. So he went to Boston and never was heard of again." To go back to oratory and acting, many actors have wondered why they have failed in making speeches, and many orators have been surprised that they have...