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...forties. The history of Abraham Lincoln by Hay and Nicolay is drawing to a close, the topic for this number being the fall of Richmond. The serials, "Friend Olivia" by Amelia E. Barr, and "The Merry Chanters" by Frank R. Stockton are continued. The other articles are "The New Croton Aqueduct" by Charles Barnard, "Captain Joe" by F. H. Smith, "The Nature and Method of Revelation" by George P. Fisher, and "The Paris Panorama of the Nineteenth Century" by Alfred Stevens and Henri Gervex. The number as a whole is above the average in interest...
...sessions, three public sessions were held during the year, at which carefully prepared papers were read on 'The Site of the Pnyx,' 'The Theatre at Thoricus,' and 'The Appreciation of Nature exhibited in the Tragedies of Euripides.' At the last session accounts also were given of the excavations at Croton by Mr. Joseph Thacher Clark and Dr. A. Emerson, and of those at Sicyon by the director...
...long distance from New York. and the fatiguing journey, the change of diet and surroundings, and above all the abominable Croton water will put the best men out of condition. Cornell suffers from this cause far more than Harvard. Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and Lafayette, which college were the only ones to win prizes this year...
...chance to procure scientific knowledge of the subject; and Lister at $20 a dozen lessons was nowhere. The lecture-room had a raised platform at one end, on which the Professor stood, and the walls were adorned with prints of ancient and modern athletes. There were Herr Milo, of Croton, the renowned deadweight lifter; M. Dares and P. Entellus, as they stood in the ring on the 12th of April, 1182 B. C., drawn by P. Virgil Maro, "Clipper" correspondent; Professor Socrates, in his great standing feat; portraits of Mr. Aristotle, Mr. Leibnitz, and Mr. Kant, all noted boxers...
...well adapted. He comes to college for the sole purpose of mental culture, feeling that health, not muscle, is the first means to this end. With Tully he sets a higher estimate on the intellect of a Pythagoras than on the mere brute strength of a Milo of Croton. As far as exercise conduces to health, he takes it, since health is an important element of success in his chosen vocation. Beyond this he cannot go without loss...