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Leaving the bright-roofed city of Quebec, the steamboat takes us down the St. Lawrence to Tadousac, one of the oldest French settlements in Canada. Here we transfer our provisions and rods to the smaller boat which plies between the mouth of the Saguenay and Ha-Ha Bay, - a charming trip, by the way, - passing Cape Eternity and overhanging Trinity opposite. All the way up the river we see at frequent intervals the mouths of tributaries. These small rivers are leased by the government for from five to twenty years to private parties for fishing purposes...
...been suggested to us by a graduate, who has been interested in looking up the associations connected with one of our oldest buildings, that it would be a pleasant and interesting custom if each occupant of a room were to inscribe his name, with some appropriate legend, on a tablet of some kind, when leaving it. These tablets might be kept under glass, on some convenient wall of the room, and, at a future time, might be very interesting. At Oxford is still shown, with pride, the autograph of Addison, rudely carved on a wall; and we hope that...
Mark how the oldest of buildings seem to grow young with surprise...
...following statistics may be of interest: The oldest and youngest man at the time of entering college, in the present Senior class, were respectively twenty-nine and fifteen; in the Junior class, twenty-eight and fourteen; in the Sophomore class, twenty-three and fifteen; and in the Freshman class, twenty-seven and fifteen...