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STUDENTS wishing practice in reading German at sight may meet Mr. Bartlett in Holyoke B, on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons at half past two. The readings will begin with Der Neffe als Onkel...
...team in Montreal, Mr. Russell, the secretary of the club, pro tem., received letters notifying him that the team and their friends were made temporary members of the Metropolitan and St. James clubs. This act of courtesy was highly appreciated, and Sunday was spent in visiting these clubs, in sight-seeing, church-going, etc., and closed with the inevitable visit to the Jesuit Cathedral, where the ever-watchful beadle (who quickly recognized us) listened attentively for the faintest allusion to "Guibord...
...account of Boston ends with some reflections on fashionable education; children, he deplores, are taught that "what they are is of little consequence, but what they appear to-be is of importance inestimable." Young men read novels, and the "sight of a classic author gives them a chill, a lesson in Locke or Euclid a mental ague." Young ladies "sink down to songs, novels, and plays." The reverend President is particularly severe towards the young ladies, and solemnly warns them that "between the Bible and novels there is a gulf fixed which few novel-readers are willing to pass...
Never spend a cent that does n't show. Avoid tete-a-tete dinners, and expensive cigars, and all that sort of thing. Most people spend so much more than appears at first sight, that if you make what you pay out tell, you will get the credit of being vastly richer than you are. And keep your bills paid up. It is always easier to settle a small account than a large one, and if you pay your bills promptly you will not be so apt to have too much pocket-money, - which tempts a man to spend money...
They breathe such sweet content. And yet the sight...