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...Boston Sunday Herald, November 20, speaks of the ill-feeling displayed in our game with Princeton. We wish to say that though the play was rough, there was no action on the part of either Team to warrant this statement. We trust that the cordial relations will continue...
...necessary for us to become scientific specialists. For this reason it would, in our opinion, be a wise step on the part of the Faculty to add a course of this description to the electives in Chemistry, unless there be decided obstacles, unknown to us, to prevent such action...
...proceedings were highly reprehensible; any one section should learn to respect the choice of the majority, and to do otherwise is an insult to the class. As usual, the larger share of the offices fell to one society, rather in the natural course of events than from any preconcerted action, and, in one or two cases, by the votes of other sections of the class. It would have been better if a larger number of those elected had not been members of this society. The closeness of the vote upon several occasions seemed to show that the election...
...learned discourse. Meanwhile Loe was trying to engage Yung in conversation. She had begun by casting down her eyes and sighing; but on looking out under her lashes, she saw that Yung was doing the very same thing. Clearly nothing was to be gained by this method of action. Since, then, the enemy was too wary, or rather too diffident, to be caught by stratagem, she resorted to the besieger's arts; she approached him by parallels. But not even then was Yung conquered; he remained safe in the fortress of his diffidence, though he did venture...
...some to have been the Third Witch in Macbeth; and this last was usually called Fothi-rejistrah, or, by some, Haricaris. In the presence of these five terrible dragons did our little Henry find himself, when he with great difficulty pushed aside the massive door, impelled to the bold action by the voice of a Siren within, whom the fifth dragon guarded night and day; and the Siren lamented unceasingly her cruel fate...