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...Prof. Collapses, amid howls from class...
...Prayer for Royer's Academy." printed on a slip of paper, and sent about as a circular. It opens with an invocation to the Almighty and the All-wise, and thanks Him that He has put it into the hearts of men to "build this academy," and that "amid all the discouragement the work has gone forward," until the edifice, "now a temple of beauty, lifts its proud turrets above the oaks of the forest." But this paean abruptly changes into a confession, as follows...
...came into play to relieve his side. It was at about this time that the crowd persisted in enroaching on the limits of the field, and hampering the players when the ball was kicked fair. The ball was once more forced upon the unwilling Harvard men's end, and amid a general back and forth movement was secured by Lamar, who crossed the line with it. Bemis followed him and before he could make a touchdown, had taken it away and touched down for safety. Time was called at once. The score standing 36 to 6 in Princeton's favor...
...minutes Yale was again in front and this time for good. From the two and a half mile flag the Yale crew continued to row a little faster all the time than our crew and at the finish they crossed the line three lengths ahead amid the salutes of cannons on the yachts and the cheers of the people on the grand stand Their time was 20 minutes, 31 seconds, the best ever made. Fifteen seconds later Harvard swent across the line having covered the distance in time only slower by a second than the previous best record. Our crew...
...curriculum, none is more worthy of notice than the "Burial of Legendre" which the Columbia sophomores perform annually with great pomp and circumstance. Not one of the least peculiar circumstances connected with the burial is the fact that it takes place in the great city of New York amid the bustle and hurry of Metropolitan life, while the people look on and wonder at the strange doings of the jolly and happy sophomores, who seem not at all abashed by the publicity of the event. At about ten o'clock one evening last week the Columbia sophomores, assisted...