Word: sons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...means, use dumb bells and Indian clubs. It was Dr. Franklin's opinion that walking is the best form of exercise, but the doctor was not familiar with the light shells and the sliding-seat of the modern art of rowing. Moreover he was merely recommending to his son, the governor of New Jersey, a course of life that would make his heart and stomach perform their functions healthily. Whatever may be the one best form of exercise, if a person is to have only one, it is certainly not boxing...
...Unitarians, who were then greatly disliked by other denominations. Although Harvard is no longer sectarian, religious hatred still makes men ready to believe anything bad which may be said of it, while they refuse to credit any representations to the contrary. Then, too, we have more rich men's son's here than any other college possesses, and rich men's sons are, as a rule, wild and extravagant, and by their actions tend to bring the whole college into disrepute. The chief reason, however, for our "bad eminence" is the readiness which the newspapers show to discredit all colleges...
PARK THEATRE-Mr. and Mrs. Florence in "The Flirt," 2 p. m.; "Dombey and Son" and "Husband Hunting...
...February number of the Atlantic Monthly has just been received. It is a very interesting number of this valuable magazine. Besides new installments of the serial stories, Yone Santo, and The Second Son, there are interesting articles on George Meredith and the Medea of Euripides. Also an article on Patrick Henry and an entertaining short story by James Breck Perkins, called Madame Necker. The poetry in the number is especially good. Besides poems by James Russell Lowell and Thomas Bailey Aldrich, there is a poem by Bliss Carman, Harvard, '87. Some very good book-notices complete the number...
PARK THEATRE-Mr. and Mrs. Florence in "Dombey and Son" and "Husband Hunting...