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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Life of General Lafayette, 2 Vols. by Bayard Tuckerman...
...what diseases college men die, but it is probable that there is no disease in anyway peculiar to them. One fifth of the community die of contagious diseases, but from these college men suffer very little. From small pox no intelligent community need suffer. A vaccination in early life, however, does not retain its virtue always, and if there are men in college who have not been vaccinated since thirteen or four-teen they had better be so now. Typhoid fever is the contagious disease most likely to make headway in a body of students. The danger would be most...
...student comes to Cambridge generally when his habits of life are well formed, and probably very few changes in them will take place here. It may be as well to make a few dogmatic statements concerning them. It has been shown beyond question by the experience of the great military schools in Germany, where supervision is perfect, that the early use of tobacco is altogether bad, though it has far less influence in some than in others. In regard to alcohol, German testimony is more conflicting; and beer is still given in the military schools, but there is little doubt...
...Life of General Lafayette, 2 Vols. by Bayard Tuckerman...
...Senator.William H. Crane and company opened a two weeks engagement at the Hollis Street Theatre last evening in the new American comedy "The Senator." The play is a satire on the American habit of always being in a hurry. The play wrights have selected a field hitherto unworked-life at the capitol, and have produced a comedy that is admirable in every particular. Mr. Crane has found in Hannibal Rivers, the senator, a role peculiarly adapted to his talents, and his success in it may safely be said to be greater than in any role he has previously essayed...