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...they could not accuse me of being commonplace. Well, tempus fugit (notice my exact knowledge of Latin quantity). One day I received a notification commonly yclept a summons. Veni, vidi, vici. The assembled Faculty received me with uncovered heads. The chairman of the returning board bored me with an address three hours long. He alluded in feeling terms to the evidence contained in my Latin paper that I spent my Sundays in profitable conversation, - probably on art, he remarked. He also hazarded a guess that I belonged to the Art Club. (Why he should have supposed this possible...
...sadly to address thy ashes dumb...
...geological models, to be deposited in his name in the school of which he is a member; a second prize of $20, and a third prize of $10. Students of either sex, who enter, attend, or graduate from public or private schools in 1880, can compete for the prizes. Address all communications and send all essays to the Secretary of the Society, William M. Davis, at Harvard College...
There is a stereotype-plate, from which impressions of a set form of petition, with blanks for date and excuse, may rapidly be printed off. The student writes upon a slip of paper his age, college class, the address of the superintendent of the Sunday school which he attends, and his mother's maiden name. He drops this into a little box; below is a sealed compartment in which are one thousand assorted excuses; turning the crank of the machine, the proper excuse drops...
...Young man, ze need not address me as ole Pappy, I was never a father," said the divine comedian...