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...colonial college, the lecturer continued, was a religious and educational garrison, founded on English modes and governed by rigid rules. Punch and "flip" were forbidden, and any student out after 9 P. M. was "adjudged guilty of whatsoever disorder might occur in the town that night." At Harvard Mrs. Foster was made stocking-mender at a salary of pound 12. Students were allowed a pound of meat and a pint of beer at dinner, and a half-pint of beer at night. For supper they could choose between a half-pint of milk and a biscuit. They were given clean...
...following are the candidates: Messrs. Burnett (capt.), Chamberlain, Churchill, DeWolf, Collins, Cook, Edgerly, Faulkner, Fish, Ferry, Gardner, Garrison, Kimball, Magill, Nichols, Rankin, Smith, Taylor. In addition to these are Messrs. Allen and Phillips who are trying for the university. Of the above mentioned, three are trying for the position of pitcher and two for that of catcher...
HONORS - H. E. Barnes, Bierwirth, Conant, Frothingham, Garrison, Goepp, Greve, E. H. Hatch, E. A. Hibbard, Noonan, A. S. Perkins, Pickop, Sexton, Walsh, of the sophomore class, and Damon, Nirdlinger, Sheffield, Sprague of junior class...
...politician, and a nephew of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson, the Confederate general who fell at Shiloh. His piece was entitled "The Lost Cause," and was an eloquent, highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand-point and a vindication of the anti-slavery movement. Fifteen years after the bitter conflict has closed students from the opposing sections defend, on a New England college platform, each his own side of the conflict...
...next sudden emergency find us in the condition we were in when the Rebellion broke out, when, to quote the language of one of our leading journals, "a drill-sergeant was a man of distinction." Not that we desire to make the United States one vast garrison like Prussia, or get into the habit of picking international quarrels unnecessarily; but all our experience tells us that a certain amount of preparation is nothing more than prudence, and that it is a poor policy to allow our military knowledge to fall to so low an ebb that a war is rendered...