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...cars, driven at the exhilarating speed usual in Cambridge, reached the main depot in ample time for the Portland train, and unloaded their freight into a couple of drawing-room cars. These immediately assumed a character which it is safe to say they never before dreamed of. The report along the line that a menagerie had "broken loose" will give a hint as to the character meant. The grave senior, unused to aught but dignity, unbent his brow into a smile and shouted and sang at intervals between puffs at his cigar. The junior was elate and jocund...
This parting utterance from the President will not be without its effect. In fact, there is a growing tendency here to coincide with his views. This is especially the case when it is considered that after all the college is not getting along so badly. To be sure the present freshman class is unduly small, but that has been accounted for in more ways than one. In general, then, it may be said Yale is prosperous, turns out creditable graduates, and maintains its usual high standard...
...have never been able to substantiate this, I fear that it is a lie. To return to archetypes, Cicero and Virgil were not grinds, but Epictetus was a grind. The lamp in which Epictetus burned his midnight oil is even now on exhibition in the British Museum along side of the Elgin Marbles. It is as large as a barrel. But to be a grind is it necessary to be a genius? I will not answer this. Victor Hugo says somewhere that it is a tres grande thing to be a bold, bad man. Now a grind is never...
...assembly of over 200 enthusiastic students watched yesterday's game between the seniors and sophomores. Jarvis Field was so thoroughly soaked by the rain of the past three days that it bore more resemblance to a bog than to a foot-ball ground. Along the base lines of the old diamond ran turbulent little rivers, continually replenished by the driving rain. On each side of the field were clusters of umbrellas that seemed to have sprung into existence like a mushroom crop...
...followed, one minute later by the first hound, Bowen, '87. The second hound in was Marquand, '89. It will be seen that the hounds won, but probably by a slight irregularity, for, noticing that the hares occasionally left the road and soon returned to it, the former kept along the road and so gained a long distance on them. According to rule, the hares should have been in thirty minutes before the hounds...