pleasant. His duties in the Land Office were not heavy ; here he had time to pursue his studies in the field of science ; here nine of his children grew to maturity ; and four of them married before the family left our borough. But a call to the chair of Professor of Mathematics, and as acting head or

GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS IN OLDEN DAYS While we can go back to the scenes of our childhood we cannot go back to our youth. The lads of two generations ago knew nothing of the supervised, organized and directed play-lots of the present time with their abundance of equipment and paraphernalia. But the