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...Wells read this crude bit of tittle-tattle, he experienced a pang of annoyance which he proceeded to vent by dashing off for the press his own version of his meeting with Mr. Bigelow on the afternoon in question...
...given birth to seven children, and her master, despite her protests and tearful prayers, had already disposed of one daughter and four sons by sale. The woman, in her petition, wrote that the bitter laments of her children at thus being forced to separate from their mother sent a pang through her heart more acute than any she had ever suffered. "When, to her dismay, the hard-hearted master arranged to take away the baby slave that still was suckling at her breast, her endurance was broken down completely. She supplicated and prayed, as parents pray...
Traditions and landmarks are no longer as enduring as in the sleepy Cambridge of an earlier century, and their passing is often but of momentary interest. The removal of Nolen's Tutoring School from the old familiar premises, however, will cause more than one pang of sentimental regret; but the announcement that Little Hall is to be converted into a Freshman dormitory will take the sting out of this momentary grief. Although it will accomodate but sixty men its acquisition comes in the light of a gift from the gods...
This volume is thicker--and we realize it with a pang--than the preceding one. It concerns the men who died within the year after the United States entered the war. Again there is no strict holding to prescribed limits, which is admirable. Every story is living and filled with sympathy in treatment and selection. Whether, as in the case of that of Every Jansen Wendell the biography is mainly in the words of a classmate, or as in that of Harmon Bushnell Craig told in his own writings, or as with Wainwright Merrill worded by Mr. Howe himself...
...allowed the mortal frame to know; for the development of manliness in the sense of stubborn and strenuous effort; for wholesome and innocent use of the fire and sinew of youth, in the fresh air, under the clear sky of heaven; animated by loyal purpose, and sparing no passing pang for the furtherance of a desired object-there is nothing in the whole range of manly training which can equal it, the ends it accomplishes or the methods of reaching them. We have not yet any too much enthusiasm over physical culture. The work of those young fellows on Saturday...