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...procession, which numbered about three hundred, took its line of march up Fifth avenue, shouting the class cry as it advanced. All the streets along the line of march were crowded with men, women and children waving handkerchiefs and joking with the jubilant sophomores. When the procession reached the college campus the effigy of Legendre was deposited upon the fatal scaffold, near which stood the sacrificial altar with its colored fires. As the students gathered around the scene of death the haruspex, Henry A. Bostwick, pronounced the doom of the victim in verse. The victim was this time represented...
...whom he had expressed an unfavorable opinion, for the purpose of having them bound over to keep the peace; also, he was about to order a coffin immediately, in which to keep the pieces when the machine went off. The student, when the man had got far enough along in his story to propose a visit to the nearest life insurance office, remarked that there was only one explanation for the curious phenomenon - his chum kept a dog which was in the habit of laying in the corner of the room, near the wall, and the wagging of his tail...
...Lowell Citizen notes that along about this time the woods in the vicinity of the various institutions of learning resound with such phrases as: "Far back in the palmy days of the Roman empire, as Gibbons tells us" - "I invite you to go back with me in thought" - "And now, classmates" - etc. Commencement time is coming...
...Williams, instead of carrying several two or three-hour courses along together, the student is compelled to take three studies with recitations in each five times a week. He is expected to finish some of these courses before the term is out, and then other studies with recitations five times a week are given...
...after three o'clock, and the ball was kept near Yale's goal most of the time for half an hour, but owing to the sharpness of Yale's defence no goals were scored. Two or three minutes before the end of the hour Marquand threw a clean goal along the ground midway between the posts. After some minutes hesitation this goal was not allowed by the umpire, who stated that he had not been able to follow the course of the ball. As he was stationed at the posts for that purpose only, his statement was a singular...