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...liberty to print, - a note which proclaims him as much a gentleman as the efforts of his defamers proclaim them the opposite. The author of "Heliotrope" and "A Hopeless Case," to say nothing of his witty satires, cannot but have a future before him that will be the best answer to the abuse of the Yale editors...
...outsider is allowed to, we find that the facts are as follows : One man in the Honor examinations obtained an average of marks five per cent higher than any one else; he certainly deserved Highest Honors. Now whether others deserved them too, or not, depends upon the answer to one question, and that is this : Have the Faculty a certain fixed per cent, the attainment of which, under any and all circumstances, gives Highest Honors; or is the per cent of the best man taken as the maximum, and all other per cents required to be within a certain number...
Glad to have been deceived in my condition, and learning that I was a stranger, he offered to show me the city. I asked where I was, and the man replied that the place was Infinity. This answer prepared me for the wonders...
...deficient, and there are many where it is pre-eminent. Not out of place here, perhaps, is mention of the '82 Class Supper. Whatever attacks in the past may have been made upon the reputation for order and propriety of '82 as a class, received a full and sufficient answer in the whole conduct of the one hundred and ten Juniors who met last Monday night to celebrate their victory...
...busily engaged in writing last letters. Shortly before 11 his brother Henry knocked at the door, when the doomed man told him in a firm voice to come in. The question was then put as to how he thought he should sleep, and his brother, on receiving a satisfactory answer, then took an affectionate farewell, first having seen that his brother was well supplied with cigars and brandy...