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...genuine faith Messrs. Sam Jones and Sam Small to a discussion on the tenets of the God of nature and nature's God, place and time selected by the two personages; admission $1, to be divided between the three speakers after all the expenses are paid. Please to answer...
...each week the absences were announced in Latin, and excuses had to be made in Latin also. The announcement would be given, - Terabfuisti," and the boy addressed would answer, "Semel aegrotavi et bis invalui." or "Detentus ob anucis;" but it is related that a certain unlearned Freshman once made reply. "Non ter, sed semel abfui; Carolus frater locked me up in the buttery...
...appear, we may feel assured that the influence of Harvard does not wane on account of the impossibility of holding alumni dinners of their own. Even at the bluest of blue Yale assemblies, a Harvard representative is one of the honored guests, and eloquent words are not lacking in answer to the toast for Harvard. Truly the college dinner is a fountain of intellectual as well as physical delight. May it never cease to bring together large numbers of loyal and enthusiastic alumni...
...Freshman crew, some time ago, sent a challenge to the Smith College girls for a 100-yards dash, straightaway, on the Charles River, and in the challenge they promised to keep the river open for the race with a muddre???ge; but, dontcherknow, those girls had the cheek to answer that, as they were the challenged party, they had a right to name their own water, and they named the Mill pond back of their college as the proper place as they were not allowed to row outside of their own grounds without a chaperone...
...freshmen were justly indignant at this answer, and at an indignation meeting of the class some rashly shook their umbrellas in the air and denounced the girls as mean things...