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...education it supplies is as important as that given in any other department of the college. The students may have sufficient out-door exercise, but when the gymnasium is not open they must lack the systematic physical training which can only be had under a competent instructor. When the master of this branch is ill his place should be supplied, just as would be the place of any other professor under the same circumstances...
...number of undergraduates in Tufts is as follows: fifteen seniors, sixteen juniors, sixteen sophomores, and seventeen freshmen. Besides there are six candidates for the degree of master of arts and one special student...
...fight between Tom and Slogger Williams, has been more read by English boys than any other of any other book in the language-as he used to read it at school. He recalls the private school matches-games of the mildest description, pursued under the immediate eye of a master. He remembers his transfer to the world of public school foot-ball the punt about between hours, the compulsory game, the matches for "cock house," the foreign matches, the Old Boys' match, and finally the ecstatic moment when he found himself elected to the dignity of a cap. That...
Derangement of mind resulting from "an attempt to master the classics," is the cause assigned for the recent suicide of a young lady of Wilkesbarre...
Perhaps the most widely known master of the school was Dr. Francis Gardner, whose eccentricities were more than balanced by the success of his methods of instruction. He formed a prominent figure in the history of the school, and will always be remembered with respect by those who studied under his directions. At the present time the school is entering upon a new era of prosperity, and now that it has become settled in its new building, it bids fair to become more popular than ever before...