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President Hamilton Of Tufts college
declares squarely that the future OF the
academic departments OF the college de-
pends upon the immediate abolition of
the system of co-education. The girls
have frightened away the boys. The
college OF liberal arts has only hand
ful entering this year. while the pro-
fessional schools are we'll filed. This
As too bad, for the experiment has been
made honestly and thoroughly at TUFTS.
But if the failure OF co-education
there leads TO the establishment OF a
separate college Cor women, 1t may
work for great good President Ham
ilton wants s25O,OOO to set up such a
college. lie ought to get it.
Apple and pear trees in the suburbs
heavily laden with fruit, are nowadays
the prey for small boys Half doz-
en- well grown lads were seen the other
day throwing sticks OF wood and stones
into a big pear tree out in DOrches-
ter. large St. Bernard dog came
bounding out Of a house and made
for the boys All but one Of the young
sters fed i'm terror before the big ami
NAL The boy who held his ground
thrust a stick of wood before him, and
when the dog leaped for his throat he
held the piece of wood so that the dog
seized that in his mouth, and at the
same time gave the dog a vigorous kick
In the ribs, which sent him running
away with his tail between his legs
The operations of the two turbine
steamers Harvard and Yale between
this city and New York on the Metro
politan line does not mean rate war
with the New Haven road.
This is according TO Charles w.
Morse, the steamship magnate, who ar
rived a few days ago on the Harvard,
which made a record-breaking trip
around the Cape.
"No, SIR; we are not looking for any
trouble. We are out for business and
that is all. Our schedule will allow for
n 13-hour trip under the most adverse
circumstances, and when the boats are
In good running order we will make the
trip TO New York in II hours,
There viii be no rate war as far as
I am concerned. We shall start with
a rate identical with the Fall River
fine"
Rt Rev A. +. Winnington-lngram
bishop of London, left for New York
recently, after a visit OF little more
than "a hours. In an interview at the
Back Bay station the bishop said that
outside Of the general Episcopal con
vention, which was his main reason
for coming to '7Ns country, he was an
xious to see the two great universities,
Harvard and Yale. lie said that he
was especially pleased with his recep-
tion at Harvard, and the large number
of students who attended his lecture at
Sanders theatre made a profound inn
preston on him. The unity of Harvard
and the splendid opportunities 1t af-
lords were highly praised.
Commercial wharf is daily the scene
of the disbursement of thousands of
gallons of gasolene, and tank teams
are constantly on hand there with the
fluid that gives life to the motor boats
and cars. It is run into cans, and
these are distributed among the owners
OF the power fishing craft. According
TO some Of the business men I'm the Vi
cinity the stuff is handled with no Very
great consideration for extreme safe
ty, boys of tender years in some in
stances being allowed to lower the
cans from the wharf to floats before it
is taken away by the Portuguese fish
ermen who use It,
Early next spring the Washington
street tunnel will be completed and in
operation, according to the present ex-
pectations of the Boston transit com
mission. In the meantime people have
been aroused to fair degree of inter
est in the new tunnel through witness
ing in some degree the preparations for
DETECTING the l. traffic from the old
subway incline at the North station.
Just how that is TO be done has been
matter of considerable speculation to
passengers on the l. and surface cars
NOAAih6 AhNp NhN SUBWAY llOll the uOIIn
and there has also been much talk on
the subject of how the railway is to
handle its l. stations so as to accom-
modate the eight-car trains which will
be used in the Washington street tun-
mel
Great changes. of course, will have TO
be made in all of the elevated struc-
ture stations and terminals; in fact the
present terminals are to be done away
with and after the new line is opened
will be simply way stations
If Horace Hemsley had done moth
ing else, during forty-seven years of
service as a waiter at one of the lead
Ing local hotels, but to incarnate the
old time habit of courtesy and rever-
ence in servants, he would have de-
served recognition as n public educa-
tor The manners that he saw ex-