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...that there are to be twelve bowling alleys. It is not my desire to do anything but approve of these plans; but as suggestions are asked for, I should say why not have a racket court? Of course there are many difficulties in the way of it, but I think the idea worthy of some consideration. If it is urged that a great deal of space is now being taken up by the proposed plans, I would venture to say that some of it might be better employed than in twelve bowling alleys. There are comparatively few who care...
...matter with Yale and Amherst, where music forms so enjoyable a part of the college life. At Amherst, besides a college Glee Club worthy of the name, there are a number of smaller organizations that serve as training-schools for it. What would the members of our Glee Club think of two rehearsals a day for a week before a concert, as is customary at Yale...
...informed rightly, there is but one copy of Luden's, one of Giesebrecht's History of Germany, one of Stith's Virginia, one of Brodhead's New York, one of Ewald's "Our Constitution," etc., etc., - books either too rare or expensive for a poor man to think of buying, but for which he has great need at certain times in the year...
...graduate till he was twenty-three, and then spent a year or so in travel and study previous to entering the Law School. He can't be admitted to the bar till he is twenty-seven at least; and yet he don't seem to think he has been wasting his time. The young man whose room in Stoughton my nephew borrowed for his Class Day told me that he had got ninety-five per cent in his college course, and that he intended to study for a Ph. D. Besides, our neighbor Mrs. Beacon Street told me the other...
...entirely satisfactory. I have had a rather good time; but I am anxious now to go to some place where I shall feel that I am at least accomplishing something tangible, and where there will be something to call forth my ambition. If I speak as an individual, I think I can at least say that, if not a majority, at least quite a respectable portion, of my class agree with me in thinking that they are glad our course is so nearly over. By the by, have you seen the President's Report...