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...operative errand boy is to collect second-hand books from the members in College House today. Collections from the other dormitories will be made next week...
...stands owned by the association at present, can only hold together about 150 umbrellas, and it was voted to have two new stands made, that would hold about 250 umbrellas. These two new stands, and more if needed, are to be placed in the auditor's room and a boy hired at a cost of fifty cents each time, to check the umbrellas. The holes in the stands will be numbered, and the one leaving his umbrella will receive a check corresponding to the number of the hole in which his umbrella is placed...
...several respects. As to the result of the system Canon Farrar goes on to say : "This is the sort of 'kelp and brick dust' used to polish the cogs of their mental machinery ! And when, for a good decade of human life, and those its most invaluable years, a boy has stumbled on this dreadful mill-round, without progressing a single step, and is plucked at his matriculation for Latin prose, we flatter ourselves, forsooth, that we have been giving him the best means for learning Latin quotations, for improving taste (or what passes for such) for acquiring the niceties...
Paterfamilies : College education no good, eh? Why, my boy doesn't graduate until next year, and already he turns his knowledge to money account. Last vacation he was pitcher for a professional base-ball club...
...dumb-bells will push up one weighing over half his own weight, and some men have managed to put up more than their own weight; and as to pulling up, a girl with developed arms can do it five or six times with comparative ease, and a boy with thoroughly good arms two or three times as many. Both the fore-arms and the upper arms of most girls are not so large by an inch as those of well-built girls of their height and age. Yet in any well-regulated gymnasium, we find youths adding in one year...