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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quarters, and the bridge will be put up today. The large float is frozen in solid. The plank covering has been taken off, so as to give the ice a chance to thaw, and an attempt will probably be made next Saturday at high tide to float it around the front of the boat house...
...once famous William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va., the alma mater of Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe and Randolph, had only one student last year, and is now closed. That one student quit because he couldn't stand the blame for all the deviltry committed for miles around. - [Post...
...thought of college youth. He should try, Mr. Cook insists, to keep alive the celestial fire of conscience. "A young man who allows himself to be ridden over by the roughs of college life for four years is not likely to be able to stand against the bad influences around him in after life. But if he cannot stand against them he is a coward and a poltroon and hardly worth saving. A man's character," he continues, "is formed largely by standing up manfully during his preparatory days. Ten years after leaving college it will be found that...
...merit. On the whole, the American system in this respect is to be preferred, unless a man desires to study a specialty. It should be the aim of a university first to make all its departments thorough and scholarly and then to collect the brilliant men of the country around the nucleus already formed. Men go to Harvard and Yale because they believe that at those institutions they will find the best general faculty and methods of teaching, although in some one department they may feel that some other college is superior. Brilliant professors die but thoroughly organized systems...
...been calling for fire-escapes. The authorities have heeded the call and will supply each room with a strong staple and rope. No doubt the first freshman that tries the escape will jump from the window with one end of the rope tied to the staple and the other around his body. The philosophical soph will run down stairs to tie it around a tree, and then go back to slide down. The junior will not need the rope, for he will be down at Carl Mattes' until all the fires on the premises have been extinguished. The senior will...