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...Society was notified that "a towardly lad and apt witt for a scholler" had entered the Indian College. This was John Wampus, a Nipmuc Sagamore, who quit before the year was out and spent the next few years in and out of jail for debt and drunkenness. He later settled down as a roving realtor in Massachusetts, and managed to sell the entire township of Sutton--which...
...science in the nineteenth century, shook the very foundations of society. Therefore Harvard's problem, at least in part, has had to be one of fitting in with a changing world. Some of these changes are rather amusing. Take the Harvard College Law of 1655, for example: "Every scholler, everywhere shall weare modest and sober habit, without strange, rufflan-like or newfangled fashions; . . . neither shall it be Lawfull for any to weare Long Hair Locks or foretopps nor to use curling, crissing, parting, or powdering their Haire." The College authorities, though they might have been tempted by the crew hair...
...First, it, (that is, singing), is a knowledge easily taught and quickly learned, where there is a good master and an apt scholler...
...first performance of the seventh annual play of the Deutscher Verein, "Pension Scholler," given last night at Brattle Hall, was remarkably jolly and successful. The play was carried through without a break and with action and spirit. The pronunciation was exceptionally faithful, the costumes characteristic and the scenery effective...
Finally Klapproth returns home glad to escape from the eccentricities of the Pension Scholler. His consternation may be imagined when on the following day, the various "patients" on one pretext or another come to visit him. Of course he thinks they have escaped, manages to lock them up in different rooms, and telegraphs to Scholler, the owner of the pension for help. At last the misunderstandings are cleared up to the satisfaction and amusement of all concerned...