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...acts. Among the more abandoned students many a conspiracy is hatched; in cold blood they often settle on the best plan of working the religious ruin of some fellow-student, and ruthlessly execute it. All of us are familiar with the method of a young man's ruin. We know the lad who entered college a member of one of the strictest churches, well fortified by parental and pastoral advice. For a time all went well with him, and, having talent, he grew in culture and influence. At last, however, his strength failed, and he went down, carrying with...
...exclusion of others. On the contrary, the chest is one of the parts most benefited, and by the quickly succeeding contractions and expansions necessary to sustain a rapid gait, the lungs are constantly receiving fresh invoices of purer air than any indoor exercise will admit of. We know of a case where a young man who had lost his voice so as to be unable to speak above a whisper entirely regained it by a walk to Boston from a town in the western part of the State, taking a week for the journey. The bracing oxygen of a crisp...
...disquisition on the benefits derived from chess need not be entered into now; we probably all know them by heart. But there are many who have never played chess who think it the very essence of stupidity for two persons to sit, one on each side of a table, looking in silence at each other and the board, and finally making a move. But chess may be played for pleasure as well as for mental exercise. We sometimes "knock up," as well as play a ball match; and it is quite as good fun for most...
However, for all we know, men may be so little acquainted with their wives in France as to make this probable, and we should be sorry to find fault with a play which, taken as a whole, is so good...