Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1859 — Fifty-two Miles a Day to Attend Callege. [ARTICLE]

Fifty-two Miles a Day to Attend Callege.

One of the most striking proofs of the regularity and dispatch of the facilities for business afforded by steam transportation, is found in the case of the son of a distinguished mechanical engineer, of Trenton, N. J., who attends daily the scientific courses of the Polytechnic College, Philadelphia, and returns home in the afternoon. The distance between the two cities is twentysix miles. The interruptions during the last year were (ewer than those which ordinarily cause detention when the distance is few squares. What a contrast is this, to Shukspeare’s time, when the school-boy went “like a snail ” The student referred to has made his two trips daily for nearly a year . —Philadelphin Enquirer.