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...editorial in the Boston Advertiser says : "For instance, too much Spanish mackerel palls, gallons of toothsome terrapin congest spleens, and chicken liver en brochette in incessant doses have been known to discomfit the digestion of even a Harvard boy." The writer probably has dined at Memorial...
...Lanman dwelt especially on the moral effect of athletics. He would fear for the future of a listless boy; but if one had some object to work for - such as was furnished by boating, baseball and foot-ball - it would prove the best possible safeguard against drunkenness and the kindred evils which beset a college life...
...said that he could add little to that which had been so ably said by those preceding him, but that he felt he must take this opportunity of testifying to the love and reverence which he had for Dr. Walker. His association with him began when, as a boy, he was selected to be his reader, as his eyesight was beginning to fail. For several years he read to him two hours a day, the doctor in the meantime advising and directing his studies, and finally supplying him with the means of obtaining a collegiate education. In after life...
...remedy that I would suggest for this state of affairs is, that the umbrella racks be removed to the auditor's room, where the paper boy or a waiter might be put in charge over them. The racks would not take up an unnecessary amount of room ranged along the wall, and could be easily disposed of, as now, when not in use. In this way men could have some hope of seeing their umbrellas again when they had put them in the racks, and the dining-hall would not be littered up by the dripping things...
...EDITOR OF THE N. Y. EVENING POST - Sir : The other day my son, aged about fifteen years, asked me the meaning of a certain objectionable passage in a play of Shakespeare, which, he said, he was instructed by his school teacher to analyze. Surprised that the boy should have such subject matter given for his lucubrations at so early an age, I made inquiry at the school, at the same time expressing my desire that he should receive other subject-matter for his studies in composition. I was informed in reply that, as the boy was understood to be preparing...