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...Wells, '84, met with a severe accident yesterday, falling on the ice near Appleton Chapel. He was rendered senseless, besides receiving several cuts on the head; but after a few hours recovered sufficiently to go from Thayer, where he had been carried, to his room in Grays...
...Christian education in Liberia, West Africa. One of the professors of the college at Liberia stated that the Liberian College was to that country what Harvard had been to Massachusetts - an institution for moulding the mind and principles of the people. Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody is at the head of the trustees of the Liberia College...
...dwarfs and stunts his growth in every other. The valedictorian has no time for exercise, or is too weary to take it; the champion athletes has no time for study, or is too stupid to begin it. One sits in his room with a wet towel about his head, and conscientiously works out his allotted task; the other stretches himself upon a lounge and has the day's lesson poured into him by admiring comrades. Both are toiling for fame, though in opposite directions. Both have won honors for their Alma Mater; so she gives them the same certificate...
...absence of enthusiasm in most institutions of learning. He attributes this in great part to either poor gymnasia or inefficient instructors. His account of an average gymnasium is very amusing and well worth reading. He also deprecates "the lack of a suitable man, with sufficient authority, at the head of the department - a man who is a college graduate, a practical gymnast, and an educated physician...
...Nation says of Life: "It is, by evolution, an offspring of the Harvard Lampoon, whose most genuine designer, Mr. F. G. Atwood, is here represented by a cartoon and by some clever initial letters and head-pieces. The drawings and the fun are much above the average of the Lampoon, and would be respectable anywhere. Is there adequate support for a decorous and monochromatic Puck...