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...durance vile the freshmen went on with their supper. Much as they hungered for sophomore gore they hungered more for the already long delayed supper, and so, waging a war of words against the sophomores, they quietly submitted. Yet blood is in the air, and '85 will soon attempt to erase this stain...
...tree." The many blessings that fortune had given him enabled him to live apart from the noise and strife of the more unfortunate part of society. The author of this work, however, Mr. Sloane Kennedy, a graduate of Yale, has succeeded most admirably in his attempt to present all the important things connected with Longfellow's life, in a very attractive form. While the book possesses none of the garrulity or impudent inquisitiveness of minor affairs that makes biographies so popular now-a-days, (a thing which would be impossible in the present instance, however,) one can find...
There has been a slight attempt during the past week to reorganize the college nine, but the movement will probably fall through as it has met with very little support, all interest being centered in the class nines and their contests...
...regretted sincerely that the attempt to have a junior class dinner should have been so completely unsuccessful. The committee wisely made frequent postponements in the hope that finally sufficient enthusiasm might be scraped together to induce seventy-five men out of a class of over two hundred to lend their aid to bring about a reunion of the class; but the effort failed, to the discredit and injury, it must be confessed, of no one but the class...
...seem totally unable to grapple with and subdue the demon of misrule." We think that a good, wholesome college, or even high school, education would have been a splendid thing for not only the "penny-a-liner" on the Times, but also for all others of his class who attempt to keep the public informed as to the "shocking disorders" in our higher seats of learning...