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Evolution: Last year Lampy represented the conference committee as a small boy armed with a pair of bellows; now it is personified as a lusty knight in full armor...
...small boy, giving the name of O'Hara, informed the foot-ball men on Jarvis yesterday that he was lost, and that his father worked in a mill; it was finally discovered that the "mill" was the Jefferson Laboratory...
...which the whole body of the community has been raised by educational processes. Formerly there was scarcely anything which could be called education except among those who were in college or preparing to enter college. Now, the common school and high school courses open so much more learning to boys, that there is a far larger class out of which literary men are likely to rise. Formerly, at least in New England, any boy who showed an aptitude for books was pretty sure to be encouraged to prepare for college. The educated men were the picked men of the community...
...that aptitude for literature in some form among alumni is readily diverting into business channels. A census of the publishing house to whose catalogue we have referred having been taken, it was found that of the twenty-eight men in the counting rooms, above the rank of errand boy, nine, or almost one-third, are college graduates. The college, it seems, is reinforcing literature in other ways than those which are strictly the ways of authorship...
...library which contains more than 500,000 volumes. No order, no catalogue, excepting volume upon volume of written memoranda which in themselves cover many shelves, opens a way for the student to so much wisdom. Nobody seems to know where to look for the books, and the poor library boy doesn't wear the hale and hearty look of our little red-haired friend. Sent out after a book at 12 on Monday, he arrives panting, fagged out, pale and haggard at 11.45 on Tuesday...