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...reports of the treatment of the Chinese students, which for some time have been going the rounds of the press, seem to us shocking, and serve to show how far behind the rest of the world China is in the matter of civilization. The following, clipped from the New Enterprise of Charlestown may be interesting to our readers who desire to know the fate of those poor students who were recalled by their government from this country, and torn away from the paths of learning and the refining influences of a higher civilization than their...
...fairy charms of pleasure lightly rest...
German 6 has begun Goethe's "Egmont." The rest of "Oberon" is being read to the section by the instructor...
...games or rowing. Of those who consulted him, he found hardly one who had a sound heart. The heart had been overworked, had been compelled to pump the blood faster than it could bear, and its power as a heart was impaired for life. It was older than the rest of the body. All excessive muscular exertion makes mischief with young people, before the frame is hardened and compacted by time. The effects may not appear at once, but will remain in the fact of lessened powers, and premature age - or death. The growing use of what are called nervines...
...were engraved on gold, we notice "perfumes of Araby, fried in crumbs; Phrygian zephyrs, with June-bug wings; hum of Cicadas, with dissolved pearl sauce, beside many other rare and novel dishes. As we go to press the company are enjoying themselves immensely, three have been poisoned and the rest are all drunk...