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THE English school papers which we have received this week are filled with accounts of athletic contests. The Meteor, Rugby School, has reached its one hundredth number, and states its position as a paper clearly and humbly. None of these English school journals make pretensions to being anything more than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

If I were a betting man, I would like to wager something that, when the "flag drops at the half" on the race-track of life some twenty years hence, Smudge, in spite of the amount of weight he must carry in his shoes, in spite of his ungainly gait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO CHARACTERS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

This is exactly the position of the goody at present. She receives her pay from the Bursar, without regard to the manner in which she treats those for whose service she is employed. There is no reason why she should do her work as long as she is paid for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CURE FOR AN OLD EVIL. | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

THE final arrangements between Yale and Harvard as to the coming University boat-race at Springfield have been completed. Two judges from each college and a member of the Regatta Committee are still to be appointed, and after that we shall be able to give all our attention to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

When, however, these people are publicly encouraged in their insolent error by a person whose authoritative position lends to his most senseless words a certain degree of importance, I feel it my duty as a conscientious man to raise my voice against the fostering of notions which may damn the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LOWER CLASSES. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »