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NUMEROUS cases of brain-fog and actual insanity from over study have recently occurred in England. Ten per cent of the young men who passed the competitive Civil Service Examination for Indian service showed, when they afterwards applied for health-certificates, that they had been affected injuriously by the strain of the examination...
...stairs, the slamming of doors, the outburst of what is called by courtesy music. Sometimes you hear a man call for "Tom" by the half-hour, as if Tom were some mighty heathen god. It must be pleasant, too, when the indefatigable athlete above you drops his Indian clubs with a yell that suggests the origin of the name applied to those useful articles, and begins to practise the last new step. I have heard that in some of the old buildings men frequently have to bring up coal and water from the lower regions, and I know perfectly well...
...intend to be President of the United States: or, if not that, I shall be an Indian Agent...
PRESIDENT ELIOT wrote the inscription for the Eliot Memorial to be erected, at Newton, to the Indian Apostle...
...next event - Indian-club swinging - Messrs. E. D. Brandegee, '81, and J. T. Howe, '80, presented themselves. Mr. Brandegee led off with a fine exhibition of heavy club swinging, and Mr. Howe followed with a marvellously agile performance, using much lighter clubs. In the second round the former executed several extremely difficult motions which tested his strength, and showed off his perfect condition and careful training. Then Mr. Howe gave a second display of a great variety of dexterous tricks, which, however, belonged properly to the province of juggling and sleight-of-hand, rather than to that of club swinging...