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Show AT HARVARD FIFTY YEARS AGO. , N. 8. Shaler Tells Us of the Life of a 4 Senior. ,' 4 Ho was a senior In Hnrvard college j and hnd n woll-dcsorved namo for scholnrBhlp In the classics, as well as , for n miscellaneous assortment of tal 'i cuts nnd knowledge. Ho wns roputed ) to bo tho best player of tho gamo of j checkors In tho country; know thb , political history of tho United Stntes amazingly well; was learned in pugilism, pugil-ism, having nt hlB tongue's end the story of all tho prizo-flghts of recent tlmos; wlthnl ho was tho merriest little lit-tle man I over seen. I well recall my first morning with him, when, after going go-ing over the best of what I could and could not do, ho ajked mo If I could '.) box. I pleaded guilty to somo knowledge knowl-edge of that Ignoblo art. At that time ; I had not learned of his Interest In It, and thought that I would bo lowered1 In his oycB by the confosslon. To my surprise, Indeed to my horror, for 1 had a swordsman's contempt for tho buslnoss, he Insisted on my having a bout with him at onco. N. S. Shaler's Autobiography. In tho Atlantic. " |