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...Sargent has succeeded in doing a hard job well. He has so interwoven and proportioned facts of antiquity, descriptions of old houses, historical data, present-day industrial notations, descriptions of natural features and directions to motorists, that what might well have been a dry-as-dust compendium is filled with lively interest. And to this is added an arrangement so carefully worked out, an index so complete and cross-references so accurate that the Handbook makes an unusually convenient reference-book...
With a little care and discretion such exercise can be made as agreeable as it is wholesome. Usually there is no dust. Often the temperature is neither too low for comfort nor too high for vigorous exercise without weariness or lassitude...
Students will soon be actually playing tennis on Sunday; clanging trolley-cars will destroy forever the sacred quiet of Brattle street itself. It may even happen that those gentle hurricanes of dust in Harvard square will yield to the unctuous persuasion of a modern water-wagon, and the secluded dusk of our streets will be lightened by the brazen rays of a real are-light...
Nearly every college room contains a dozen or more dust covered study books which the owner has forgotten about. If all these owners of superfluous books and clothes will remember that the collectors make their rounds today, they will be able to make useless possessions serve some actual good...
...number begins with an amusing editorial on Billy Sunday, in which the editor, overcome by the hyphenated political matter of the day, places an unnecessary separative in the "saw-dust" trail...