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...orphan boys are being educated at Girard college...
...lots of fun in it and all along the sidewalk. Through the constant persuasions of the seniors and juniors the freshmen were spurred to take and keep the sidewalk in spite of all the efforts of the sophomores, as far as the vacant lot this side of the orphan asylum, where the long struggle was stopped. The freshmen showed unexpected "sand" and pluck throughout all the rushing and well earned their victories...
...college, has increased in value, so that it yields annually in rents $800,000, and it is constantly growing more productive. The college grounds contain 41 acres, with about 40 distinct buildings for the use of the pupils, including a chapel, dormitories and laboratories. More than one thousand orphans are here instructed, fed, clothed and cared for in every particular by the various officers of the college. They are taken at the early age of six years, some of them ignorant of the alphabet, and are kept under "tutors and governors" for eight years; then if suitable places...
...says the College Argus. Its notions of what "an institution of the size, pretensions, and undoubted ability" of Wesleyan ought to produce are shown in an article entitled "Twilight Musings." We are introduced to a young lady called Mabel, who, being somewhat impecunious, and an orphan withal, foolishly wishes for the riches of this world. By an ingenious process of castle-building she attains her end in about fifteen minutes; but the powers of earth, air, water, and fire - as exemplified in the sun - begin to send in such exorbitant tax-bills for the use of their respective elements, that...
...police courts and before grand juries seems to develop what might be called superb audacity. We lately heard of a prisoner, on trial for the murder of his parents, who made an eloquent and touching appeal for mercy to the jury on the ground that he was an orphan!" - Advance...