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...doubt if traces of a student's four years' training are ever distinct enough to be discovered ten years after he leaves Cambridge. The man who possesses the most original mind by nature receives none of those impulses found in a sympathetic band of thinkers. Usually he simply moves along the even tenor of his way unbenefitting and unbenefitted...
...Ohio river is still rising along its entire length, and hundreds of families have been driven from their homes at Pittsburg, Wheeling and other towns. Pomeroy, Ohio, is completely under water, and its whole population has been compelled to seek safety on the hilltops...
Owing to heavy rains along the Ohio valley the Ohio river is rapidly rising and overflowing its banks. It is already eight inches above the danger line, and many towns are inundated and much property destroyed...
...Alpha Delta Phi Prof. James B. Thayer of the Harvard Law School responded to the toast, "The public service, - a trust and not a perquisite." His was a brief speech, alluding with facetiousness to his proposed trip to Greece and his mission to plant colonies of Alpha Delta Phi along the coasts of the Mediterranean. The Rev. Edward G. Porter of Lexington was introduced as a representative of the Harvard Chapter. He told of the perennial power of the fraternity, and of the life-long allegiance which the members owe to it. Men of all the educated professions are brought...
...that's mamma; such a bother as she was; we have no oven and had to have her fired out of the house." And Scruples, who is not versed in the technicalties of china painting, goes off in doubt whether it is worse to be unfilial or to talk along. - [Life...