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For vacation is the time to watch the spring come in, not to fly to tropical summer or to stretch out winter to the crack of doom. It's the time for a dash on the young colt through country lanes in Connecticut, for tramping over wet hills, bag over...
New York City medical schools have for the instruction of their 495 medical freshmen, the pick of the 30,000 unknown who die annually in the metropolis. The surplus dead are placed in plain coffins and hauled by barge to one of the East River islands for burial.
Holy Coup, Most news stories hung on the Richest Man are chiefly chatter about how careful His Exalted Highness is with his pennies - whereas $5,000 is his approximate daily income, his jewels have an estimated value of $150,000,000, he reputedly has salted down $250,000,000 in...
Trickling back like a slow-running, twinkling stream, come post-exam stories that fill the student's cup brimming full once again. One senior of no inconsiderable reputation, in particular, had sipped of the dregs of examination life and found them bitter. He determined to seek out the bright lights...
"As we have already shown, or rather suggested, Harvard has a history of which all Americans may be proud, and is an institution which reflects the highest credit on its parent state. It is not a very grand place when compared with Oxford or Cambridge, but then it is not...