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...educated man will learn more about the workings of a business in one year than the average boy apprentice will in three years. He brings a mind well trained and disciplined, accustomed to view things fairly and liberally, quick to comprehend, and once having grasped a subject tenacious of it. Place against these qualities the mind of the boy of fourteen or fifteen years old, and there can be no comparison made. The contrast is too startling and decisive. The one disadvantage of a college man entering business is, that his age is too advanced by the time he leaves...
...promised strength which is not forthcoming. It also lacks unity, and the first chapters, treating of the boyhood of Beverly, present anecdotes of him, which entirely fail to delineate his character with any vividness. One might also think that the Italian language was not a common study for a boy of ten or twelve, in the New England of fifty years...
...many of the old tennis courts as can be made ready will be open for play on Monday. Tickets for play will be for sale at Bartlett's and the Cooperative store, as well as of the boy on the ground. Fee for play 5 cents. The new clay courts will be ready in a week...
...seems to me I do. I am not sure but I went there to school when I was a boy...
...announcement of the Tennis Association in our Saturday's issue, a typographical error caused some ambiguity in the meaning. In the sentence, "and it shall be the duty of this boy to collect these tickets and the necessary amount," the word and should be changed to. Subscriptions should be sent to No. 12 Holworthy...