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...Syracuse University has recently been presented with a watch about three hundred years old. The watch weighs nearly half a pound, troy weight, and keeps very good time...
...classical school has been opened at Indianapolis, Ind., by Messrs. T. L. Sewall and William I. Abbott, both graduates of Harvard. The school is patterned after the best Eastern academies, and has already a good number of students...
...foot of the ladder, and yet unprepared to begin any higher. Granted that there are a considerable number of students who go through college in this manner, and find themselves in a perplexity as to what to do after graduation, this fact cannot be given a general application. A good many go through college badly, and a good many go through it well. We think there is no doubt that those who go through it well, that is, with diligence and method, are superior on their own ground to the men who enter business or a profession without a collegiate...
...possibly in the New World too, an unfortunate set of men who have succeeded in living so extremely fast that they are utterly tired out long before they have reached the period of life when a normally developed human being begins to think that things are not as good as they used to be. They are blessed with leisure and with money, or with that blessed faculty of making other people pay for their amusement, which is quite as good as money, and they have dipped into everything under the sun. The monotony of constant variety - the most maddering monotony...
...refusal of the Yale Freshmen to row our Freshman class next summer is not to be seriously regretted. The prospect of such a race serves, of course, to draw out the Freshmen able to row, and the existence of a good Freshman crew is in a measure a training-school for future University oars. On the other hand, the Freshman race interferes with the University race. Now that we are entering on a series of races with Yale, and with Yale alone, all interfering objects should be set aside. The duel between the principals should take place without minor contests...