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...should see to it themselves that they lay aside all childishness and begin to conduct themselves as gentlemen. As it is thought that the students are of an age and temperament to look with respect, if not with admiration, upon the men who-so often scholars of more than local reputation-have been assigned for their instruction, the College has offered in its curriculum no special course in manners...
WANTED.- A good salesman to sell our Lub'g Oils and Greases from samples. Local or travelling man. Liberal commissions. Address: The Howard Oil and Grease Co., Cleveland, Ohio...
Throughout his life he set an example to his fellow-citizens by his deep and steady interest in public affairs and his faithful discharge of civic duties. He had a most humane and kindly heart; he was active in many local charities and waf a constant and liberal giver to the poor. He was a steadfast friend and a helpful counsellor to everyone in doubt or trouble. The daily record of his life would be a record of kind deeds no less than of laborious study and exemplary performance of duty...
...South Carolina, where more than half of the population was non-English, the general character of the immigration was excellent. Most of them came for religious reasons, a great majority being Hugenots. They lived under the parish system of local self-government, much as it existed in England...
...better supported by undergraduates. It is perhaps the most representative of Harvard thought and the Harvard atmosphere and spirit of any of the University publications. Every number is full of matter of great interest both to graduates and undergraduates. It takes the academic students out of their local and comparatively narrow college life, shows them the greater University, and gives them the maturer opinions of graduates and members of the Faculty on all topics of general interest to the University...