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    "title": "Records relating to Polar Exploration",
    "description": "This file includes poems, articles, and letters relating to Admiral Robert Peary, the ship Roosevelt, and North and South Pole expeditions.",
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    "ocrText": "2\nTHE PENN CHARTER MAGAZINE.\nTHE PENN CHARTER MAGAZINE.\n3\nforty-four boys, whereas this year its\nusual capacity since the first assembly\ntotal reaches to sixty-two.\nA\nBOUT reading, Lord MACAULAY\ndispatch, \"We have met the enemy and\nand is fully up to old standards. The\nsays: \"When a boy I began to\nthey are ours.\" In style and brevity\norganization needs two cornets and a\nread very earnestly, but at the foot of\nit equaled CAESAR'S great speech, \"Veni,\nU\nPON returning to the school we\nclarinet. These valuable instruments in\nevery page I read I stopped and obliged\nVidi, Vici.\" A certain English gen-\nfound a new face to greet us on\nan orchestra are worthy of the atten-\nmyself to give an ac-\neral, however, was given by the Lon-\nthe teaching staff. To Mr. G. M.\ntion of many a Penn Charter boy, for\nReading\ncount of what I had\ndon Punch the record for brevity when,\nBAKER, who succeeds Mr. HERRICK as\nthey were made for men to play, and\nread on that page. At\nafter he had conquered without orders\nGerman master, we\ngive pleasure and satisfaction to him\nfirst I had to read it three or four times\nthe province of Scinde, in India, he sent\nGreeting\nwish to extend our\nwho plays them well. The present year\nbefore I got my mind firmly fixed.\nthis witty dispatch, \"I have sinned.\"\nhearty greeting. Mr.\nshould see those places filled by com-\nBut I compelled myself to comply with\nHe sent it in Latin, and it came in one\nWHITE, although he has been with us\npetent fellows from our ranks.\nthe plan, until now, after I have read\nword, \"Peccavi.\" Sir HORATIO NEL-\nseveral years, has not before been on\na book through once, I can almost re-\nSON was in command of the English\nour teaching staff. This year, in addi-\nW\nwere glad to hear at Penn\ncite it from beginning to end. It is a,\nfleets at the battle of the Nile, August\ntion to his track work, he will teach\nCharter of the success of one\nvery simple habit to form early in life,\nI, 1798. As the engagement between\nLatin in Quarta, filling Miss BRALEY'S\nof our old boys in winning a Greek and\nand it is valuable as a means of mak-\nhis fleets and the opposing French was\nplace. We wish them both a very pleas-\nLatin prize at college. HENRY D.\ning our reading serve the best pur-\nabout to begin, NELSON exclaimed,\nant year.\nLEARNED, O. P. C. '08,\npose.\"\n\"Victory or Westminster Abbey.\" It\nCollege Prizes\nwon both prizes in\nproved to be victory.\nH\nAROLD J. CLARKE has been\nLatin and Greek sight\nA\nNYONE\nwho\nwas\nfortunate\nelected leader of the Glee Club\ntranslation for sophomores at the Uni-\nand WILLIAM R. WEBB, JR., leader of\nenough to witness the grand\nN OTHING is SO well calculated to\nversity of Pennsylvania. LEARNED\ndiscourage one as physical de-\nthe Mandolin Club. CLARKE'S powers\nwhile at Penn Charter was a member\nparade of the veterans of the Civil War\nfects which cannot be remedied; but\nof voice and leadership\nof the MAGAZINE staff, and wound up\nrecently in Atlantic City could not help\nhistory is full of instances of men who\nMusical\nClubs are well known, and\nbeing impressed by\nby being editor-in-chief. He was also\nhave suffered the\nG. A. R.\nWEBB has many times\nthe wonderful sight.\ngreatly interested in photography, hav-\nPerseverance\ngreatest defects and\ndemonstrated his ability on mandolin,\nPost after post, the\ning won several prizes. This is only\nyet achieved greatness.\nbanjo and piano; the clubs are in com-\none of the many instances in which we\nremnants of a grand army, battle\nBEETHOVEN, who, despite his deafness,\npetent hands. The present large Sen-\nhear of such prizes won by our old\nscarred and time worn, passed in con-\nreached an eminence in the musical\nior School has an abundance of candi-\ntinuous file for two hours and a half.\nboys. If you scan with care the alumni\nworld to which no others have attained,\ndates for the sixty or more places on\ncolumns during the winter you will\nThere were few dry eyes among the\nonce said, \"The barriers are not erected\nthe clubs, SO the season looks promis-\nprobably read of many more such in-\nthousands of spectators who lined the\nthat can say to patient perseverance,\ning. For the good of the clubs the\nway when a band of old and crippled\nstances.\n'Thus far and no farther.\" MILTON,\nstandard of vocal and instrumental\nsoldiers sang, \"Marching Through\nin his blindness, wrote his best works.\nability required for membership has\nGeorgia.\" It was this type of men\nbeen raised this year. Only those pos-\nA\nLL Penn Charter boys will be glad\nDEMOSTHENES was hooted from the\nto know that THEODORE E.\nthat saved our Stars and Stripes, and\nstage the first time he spoke in public,\nsessing voices already good, or that\nBROWN, O. P. C. '96, has been chosen\nthat is the reason they received such a\nfor he had a weak, imperfect articula-\npromise much, will be eligible for the\nto succeed DR. HARRY TOULMIN, who\ngrand ovation along their line of march.\ntion, but by his own endeavor he be-\nGlee Club, and candidates for the Man-\nhas just resigned from\nMay the few encampments that are yet\ncame the most perfect orator the world\ndolin Club must own a high-grade\no. P. C. Graduate his position as chair-\nto come be as great a lesson in true\nhas known. To Penn Charter boys an-\ninstrument and study with an instru-\nman of the Baseball\npatriotism as the one just ended in\nother instance will occur at once. Let\nmental teacher during the music sea-\nCommittee of the University of Penn-\nAtlantic City.\nus learn this invaluable lesson.\nson at least. Every fellow who pos-\nsylvania. THEODORE E. BROWN was\nsesses the ability to play or sing well\nPennsylvania's great pitcher several\nI\nis interesting to note the remarks\nshould come out for the clubs.\nmade by great men under strik-\nI\nis good to cultivate a little whole-\nyears ago and has been connected with\nsome curiosity about the origin of\nThe director and leaders have al-\nathletics in that college for several\ning circumstances. For instance, after\nour common words. Have you ever\nready planned a vigorous campaign for\nyears.\nthe battle of Lake Erie had taken\nthought how or when window sashes\nthe winter and will work hard to main-\nWe are glad that one of Penn Char-\nplace and the British\ncame into existence?\ntain the enviable reputation borne by\nter's graduates has been chosen to fill\nRemarks\nfleet was overcome,\nA Light Chat\nThe word \"sash\" tells\nthe clubs in Penn Charter and outside.\na position SO important in the athletics\nCommodore PERRY\nus that this kind of\nThe orchestra has been serving in its\nof one of the great universities.\nsent to General HARRISON his famous\nwindow was a Dutch invention, \"sas\""
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