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...place of education. John Harvard himself, the gentleman continued, would regret that the inscription on his statue should imply the slightest want of recognition of the fact that, long before he had ever set foot upon these shores, the magistrates of the colony had taken formal steps to establish a seat of learning, to which they subsequently assigned his name...
...attended by many more than it is. All of the speaking that a lawyer has to do is directly of the nature of that which constitutes a debate. There is a point to be maintained by one party and attacked by another; or perhaps two parties are striving to establish two opposite conclusions. The same is the case in the ordinary practice of a lawyer; and there are in debate the very best opportunities for the formation of a good style of delivery, of a habit of rapid and exhaustive reasoning, and of that self-possession which is so essential...
...given a decided impetus in this country next season. The Overman Wheel Company of Chicopee, Mass., is to put the "Victor" bicycle on the market, and George Warrick, formerly a bicycle builder in London, and a holder of numerous patents, as well as licensee of American patents, proposes to establish a bicycle manufactory near Springfield...
Charles L. Colby has given a round $1,000,000 to establish a new university in Wisconsin. It was his father, Gardner Colby, who endowed Colby College, at Waterville, Maine...
...been customary to train athletes on lean beef and mutton, but he thought this a mistake, as tissue-making food should be used in combination with these, and the diet should be so changed as to meet the requirements of the organism of the person using it, for to establish one diet for all persons was ridiculous. Beef alone is not superior to meal, beans or other farmaceous food, and the size of the muscles of a man is not indicative of his strength. Farinanceous food tones a man down and will tend to give him more endurance...