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...fashion: All the body is protected with thick leather plastrons, and heavy gauntlets cover the hands and arms. Their eyes and nose are protected by gauze goggles so that no slip of the sword can injure them. The forehead, chin and cheeks are left exposed. The dueling weapon is somewhat like a rapier, but longer and flatter and quite dull with the exception of three inches at the point. This part of the sword is shaped like a razor and has as keen an edge. The great object of the duel is to cut your antagonist's face...
...general library, have at length been surrendered to the exclusive use of that department of the institution for which the building was originally designed. A little more than two years ago the Legislature appropriated $100,000 for a new and incombustible library building. The needs of the university were somewhat peculiar, inasmuch as the number of students using the library is very large in proportion to the number of volumes in the collection. It has thus far been deemed impracticable to allow the books to be taken away from the building, and consequently a large reading room was indispensable...
...certain Mr. Billings has recently written an open letter to the President and fellows of Harvard College through the columns of the Turf, Field and Farm, in which he attacks the Harvard Veterinary School in a very vigorous and somewhat excited manner. The gentleman that wrote it assures his readers that "he is not a 'sore head' " but that he looks upon the "subscription plan" by which the school is carried on as "a disgrace to Harvard College and as bound to exert a most baneful influence, by its example, on the future of American veterinary medicine." This subscription plan...
...rate, it was so, for in Bristol they had taken no narrow view of what a college should be. The fact that certain subjects were so sadly neglected at most schools rendered it the more desirable that their sons should have the opportunity of learning those subjects somewhat later in life. Hence he congratulated the city of Bristol that they possessed a college which cultivated the newer without neglecting the older subjects...
...Reserved and uncommunicative as a recluse, he had a few chosen friends with whom he loved to talk of his favorite studies. About the college grounds he moved shyly, as if trying to avoid recognition or the necessity of recognizing others. In the class-room he was somewhat grim, and chary of the lore at his command. He was rather an instructor of scholars than of students, and his vast erudition showed itself in his grammars and lexicons more than in the conduct of recitations, which with him was rather formal and unfruitful, though his occasional lectures were rich with...