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...might take some of Dr. Wilder's suggestions to heart with profit. After a few words of caution as to drinking-water, he goes on to say that "for healthy growing people the habitual use of tea or coffee is undesirable. Certainly they should be used in moderation." For harmless substitutes he suggests "wheat coffee" or "Fry's Cocoa Extract." Milk is recommended most highly as being both food and drink and even if at first it disagrees with some, he says, "perhaps a persistent trial of it would succeed as well as in the case of tobacco." Then follow...
...order to combine with the foregoing lesson in natural history a harmless drill in mathematics, and so give the book value as a compendium of musical forms, a chant is inserted, having for its words the pathetic trilogy of the 'three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso...
...order to combine with the foregoing lesson in natural history a harmless drill in mathematics, and so give the book value as a compendium of musical forms, a chant is inserted, having for its words the pathetic trilogy of the 'three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso...
...engine to a pond near by and threw the dirty water upon the citizens in such quantities that they were glad to escape. Another amusement, in which they frequently indulged, was the practice of throwing water into any window on the yard which happened to be open. This harmless recreation proved ruinous to the society, for we learn that "about the year 1822, having discharged water into the room of the college regent, thereby damaging a very valuable library of books, the company was disbanded and shortly after the engine was sold to the town of Cambridge, on condition that...
Such is the story of commencement day, and such, it is hoped, it will ever remain. Last year the various class secretaries, who usually make the arrangements for providing the refreshments for their several classes, were politely requested to have nothing stronger than claret punch, or some equally harmless decoction, provided for the class entertainments. This request was complied with in several instances, but it was generally observed that the claret punch entertainments were neglected by those for whose edification they had been provided, and that the rooms where the old fashioned article was set forth were extensively patronized...