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...world alone. No story could be more sad and pathetic. In it are clearly shown the influence of a good woman and the susceptibility of even hardened men to it. Few can read such a story without being firmly convinced of the necessity of meeting the men of the lower class on their own ground, and making them realize the responsibilities of a home and the effects of that terrible curse, rum. Surely the cause of temperance can have no better ally than this little book. [Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Review. | 11/14/1887 | See Source »

...increased strength of all parts of the body, while the girth of the neck, waist and calves, the depth of chest and abdomen, the breadth of neck, waist and hips seem to respond more slowly. The total height is slightly increased, through increase in length of the lower extremities, but the sitting height and girth of head, knees, instep, waist and the length of upper arm and foot are at first hardly altered. In the athletic class, the excess in development of the right arm tends to establish the fact that our popular games give more employment to the right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Physical Characteristics of the Athlete. | 11/8/1887 | See Source »

...winter, a concert or two, and a general reception at commencement complete the list of the social attractions at the "Hamp." No complaint is more commonly made in college than the complaint that class spirit is dying out. And there is much to support this belief. True, the lower classes manifest their esprit de corps in rushes, bonfires and like performances. But class spirit as it was twenty or thirty years ago, class spirtit such as exists to-day in many colleges, is a thing of the past at Amherst. And this change is due to the growth of Greek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Life at Amherst. | 11/4/1887 | See Source »

Mlle. Helene Hastreiter rendered the Aria from Orpheus in a dramatic but rather harsh style. Her voice is very rich and melodious in the lower register, but inchmed to be throaty in high sustained passages. She sings utterly without sentiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Symphony Concert. | 11/4/1887 | See Source »

Boats will start above boathouse and finish near the lower Brighton bridge, Starters, Mr. Butler, '88, and Mr. Keyes, '89; judges at finish, Mr. Wood, '88, and Mr. Balch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Races To-Day. | 10/29/1887 | See Source »

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