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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...less than 120,000 pictures under contract, and, beginning with West Point in 1875, he has been retained on the superior merit of his work by every college, embracing, at present, Vassar, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Williams, and Wesleyan. Truly a remarkable record for a young man who began his career, fifteen years ago, over a stable at Long Branch, and plodded along, fighting poverty and many drawbacks, until he is acknowledged, especially in out-door and college art, the leading photographer of the country. His brothers are associated with him, and they have permanent galleries in various localities...
...muscle in the universities; secondly, that by reason of success in athletics, the universities arrogate to themselves superiority where they do not possess it; thirdly, that other colleges and the outside world are deluded into this belief, and fall down and worship the gilded calf. We remember hearing a young sport say in a library in this city: 'There's no doubt about Harvard. I would n't give two cents to graduate at Yale. I graduated at Harvard.' Better no education at all than such an education...
...Packer Quarterly has an article on "A new kind of shopping" and a good deal to say about "fashion." O worldly Packer! Its articles are all bright and interesting. Why is it that the young ladies' papers all have such a simple and excellent style? Here is a line from the Packer's poem on the Beautiful...
...given an account of the adventures of a bad boy who never had any of the misfortunes happen to him that always happen to bad little boys in the Sunday-school books. Unfortunately his hero did not go to college, so I have taken the history of another young man who did, to supply this...
...name of my hero was not Jim, but George. To be sure, George is oftener the name of a good young man than of a bad one, yet this particular George was bad; there was no doubt of that. As he had been expelled from only four schools, of course he had not the slightest difficulty in obtaining a certificate of good moral character when he desired to enter college. The examinations offered a slight obstruction for a time, as George was not especially fond of study, but after a few unsuccessful trials he formed an intimacy with a proctor...