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TWENTY-FOUR Princeton students were arrested a short time ago for making night hideous, and fined $ 3.80 apiece. Total deficit...
...Pooh! That's nothing, father, a mere form; relic of an old custom. You see, about a hundred years ago, the twenty best men of the class used to contend in an examination for the first place. The nineteen who did n't win were told that they might go away into the country, that is, sever their connection with the College, for a while, study up and try their fate again. The custom has died out, but the notices remain, and now they are sent round to show that you are in the first twenty of your class...
...Sunday afternoon, a few weeks ago, I was sitting in my room with a volume of Macaulay in my hand, musing upon the looks and character of my friend the school-boy, when there came a knock at the door. To my shout of "Come in!" there entered a person whom I at once recognized as the wonderful boy I had so long desired to see. His head was small; his eyes had a sleepy look in them, and were of dull gray; his nose inclined to the pug; and his mouth was large and inexpressive; but his hair...
...Corporation might have voted the small sum necessary to establish our ex-President on a sound footing in his new position. The beautiful statue, which was so generously presented to the College, has indeed been treated with singular inhospitality ever since its arrival. About three months ago it was tossed down in a corner of the vestibule in Memorial Hall, with the packing case half opened; and in that insecure position it remained till a week ago, when it was moved to Sanders Theatre. It hardly seems possible that so long a time was necessary for building so cheap...
...crew, which influences rather this private letter to you than the customary direct challenge to your club. Harvard feels a claim on your attention, and should a challenge be sent, would expect its acceptance. Still it has seemed more in the spirit of its pleasant relations begun ten years ago to find out your wishes and probable action by letter than by any positive test. It is our hope, in case the race can be brought about, to send to you not only a crew which shall represent Harvard alone, but be, too, the champion of our American colleges. Trusting...