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...alphabet, and are kept under "tutors and governors" for eight years; then if suitable places can be found are apprenticed to some trade. The design of the founder was to make practical men, hence classical training was neither enjoined nor forbidden in the will. The students, therefore, seem immature compared with those of New England universities. The principal building is fireproof; even the roof is built of slabs of marble. The stairs from bottom to top are self-supporting, without wood-work. This building is devoted wholly to the business of instruction, and the teachers are responsible for the good...
...money received last year has suitably furnished the gymnasium meeting-room. The calls from different associations upon these funds will probably be numerous enough to secure the easy disposal of the money, but the large expenses attendant to the 'Varsity Crew, and the importance of supporting it, would seem to give it a prior claim upon any gratuity the Athletic Association may have to offer...
...course the closeness was almost unbearable. Last year a man fainted at the very corresponding lecture in this course. In spite of this, a man near the windows attempted to close the few windows that were open. The rest of the audience very properly hissed him. Some men seem to have a mania for closing windows, however disagreeable the close air may be to others. This is done in many of the recitations, and it is to be hoped that the section will insist upon its right to hiss...
...training for the class tug-of-war teams goes on bravely every afternoon in the basement of the gymnasium, in the presence of admiring spectators. The "scratch" teams seem to gain the advantage about as often as the regular teams...
...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...