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...early boyhood of Mr. Bolles was spent in rural New England. Later his family moved to the south, where he lived for several years in Baltimore and Washington. When twenty years old he entered the Law School of the Columbian College, D. C., where he spent three years, graduating in 1879 with the degree of LL.B. He then came to Harvard and entered the Law School. While at Harvard he founded the Daily Echo, one of the first of the college dailies, and later, by his essay on "International Arbitration," secured the Bowdoin Prize. In addition to his law course...
...Thomas Fiske, writing in the Columbia Spectator, says: "Two distinct types of the University may be noted - the metropolitan and the rural. Both exist in this country. Both exist abroad. Highly developed examples of the former may be seen at Berlin and Paris, and of the latter at Cambridge and Oxford. Generally speaking, the latter is characterized by a close relationship to the life of the student. It is said to stand in loco parentis. The university of the other type assumes no responsibility for the detail of the student's life. In both types, however, it is equally essential...
...clearly put forth by Mr. C. W. Birtwell, H. U. '83, and Hon. Robert Treat Paine, H. U. '55. The society has three Homes, at West Newton, Foxboro', and Weston. Here about seventy boys are sent who have either been arrested or under danger of arrest, and in these rural training schools the boys stay until they are sent to private homes in the country. Except for the short time that the boys are at the Homes, they have nothing to do with anything like an "Institution;" they go right into the midst of a country family where they derive...
...strong comedy, dealing with English rural life, and affords Mr. Sothern better opportunities than anything in which he has been previously seen. There will be a special Christmas matinee on Thursday...
Boston Museum.The fifth week of the old comedies was begun last evening with the performance of "Old Heads and Young Hearts." Mr. Geo. W. Winson had the leading role in Jere Rural, the old country cleryman. It is one of his best impersonations. The comedy will be given until Thursday when the "Road to Ruin" will follow...