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Chester S. Lord, who was Managing Editor of Charles A. Dana's Sun, has written a book: The Young Man and Journalism. "A gloomier or more pessimistic tract never we saw," say the critics. "Young men who read Mr. Lord's book will take to bricklaying sooner than journalism...
...pleasing to all interested in physical culture. How pleasing this life must be to the undergraduates called to the head of the association for this year. When the college year opened last fall, the prospect which met their eyes was anything but bright. Indeed, to many the prospect appeared gloomier than ever before. Two years had elapsed since a trainer had been permitted by the faculty to prepare men in general athletics; the last of the celebrated college athletes trained in the old days had graduated, and comparatively few new men had taken prizes at the great inter-collegiate games...