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"Some men, when they go in a saloon, become intoxicated and commence fighting, and perhaps kill one another, or get their eyes knocked out, or their teeth punched down their throat. Some men, when they go in a saloon, do not get drunk, but gamble and lose all of their...
A PAMPHLET, edited by Samuel A. Green, M. D., has lately been published, entitled "A Copy of the Laws of Harvard College, 1655," which gives some interesting facts regarding the government of the College, and some very curious rules relating to the dress and deportment of the students. The original...
Under the second head are laid down the laws relating to prayers, from which, it appears, that all students, besides being expected to hold private prayers, were obliged to "be present morneing and evening at publick prayers at the accustomed houres; viz: ordinarily at six of the clock in the...
Let Augustus, then, be polite to old Smudge out of policy, if for no better reason, for I imagine he has a rather hard time, and will appreciate a pleasant smile and a kind nod; and who knows but what his aid may avert a dreaded "flunk" on some impossible...
There is, too, strange and sad as it may seem, a feeling among the more intellectual circles that the coming man will not be a Cartesian. A gentleman connected with the College said to me the other day that Descartes's writings would be regarded in a few years as...