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...proper training for a man who intends to make business his vocation in after life. Many arguments, pro and con, have appeared in the press, in all of which the great mass of discussion has centered about the one point, is, or is not, a highly educated man fit to devote his time and attention to the trivialities of any occupations outside of the professional? Many are convinced that the higher the polish a man puts upon his mind the less readily it adapts itself to the hard and exacting circumstances always found in a purely financial pursuit...
...effort is being made to build a new gymnasium at Bowdoin, Dr. Sargent has offered to fit it up at his own expense if the funds for the building are forthcoming...
Your correspondent does us a gross injustice by falsely misquoting us; even if this mistake happened simply through carelessness, it is almost inexcusable. We are quoted as saying that a man who hits his opponent hard enough to disable him, would be declared "fit only for the society of roughs and 'muckers.' " Such a statement was never made in the Advocate. What we did say was, that "such slugging may do among roughs and 'muckers,' but that it is wholly out of place before an audience largely composed of ladies." Such is still our opinion...
...took one losson in sparring to aid him in defending himself. Now, I ask you if any man would go to a sparring match and allow himself to be pummelled about, merely because if he hit his opponent so hard that he disabled him, he would be declared "fit only for the society of roughs and 'muckers' "? Either the gentleman who was so badly handled was also ignorant of sparring, or else in an unfit condition to appear; in the former case he would also come under the pale of criticism, in the latter, to what purpose are contestants examined...
...surrounded house and found ourselves in an apparently well-stocked library. A large open fire-place yawned at its opposite end. A few dull embers flickered dimly there, sending out barely light enough to reveal the features of the room, and making the corners and recesses all the more fit abodes for the uncanny beings that haunt such places in the dead of night. Hundreds of volumes were ranged up the sides of the walls. Ancient tapestries from Venice and Florence draped gracefully in the corners. Marbles and vases, gems and intaglios, represented the civilization of Greece and Rome. Knickknacks...