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...strive to magnify the sagacious Goose with this feeble, academic pen? Only a quill from her own wing would be equal to the task. It were better to give over the attempt, and try only to heed her counsels...
...that in a book of mine, in treating collectively of all forms of luxury, indulgence, recreation, and amusement, I say of them collectively that 'temperance is evidently fitting, and therefore a duty,' and that it is 'better than abstinence, unless there be specific reasons for abstinence.' " An attempt to wrest language as clear as this to an argument in favor of moderate drinking is argumentative hypocrisy. We speak plainly, because we feel that Dr. Peabody has been grossly insulted by his opponents; one of them going so far as to declare him "a corrupter of morals and unfit...
...about to attempt some suitable answer when a professor who had for some time with difficulty restrained himself, rushed forward and threw his arms about me. When his emotion permitted him to speak, he ejaculated, "O my son! My life's work has been and is to prove that the Choctaws are the living representatives of the lost digamma. And now I have a fellow-worker, a co-operator, a ???." At this point his emotion again mastered him, and another speaker demanded my attention. And this is what he said: "In the name of the Faculty of Ha-v-erfo...
...Denniston secured the running broad jump, placing 17 ft. 10 3/4 in. to his credit, Morrison failing to do better than 17 ft. 1 3/4 in In the hurdles, Denniston had a walk over, and started to make a record, but, stumbling on his ninth hurdle, gave up the attempt, and finished easily in 22 1/2 seconds...
...stands is very deficient. Even after the first year there are no steps taken to secure a thorough English education for the students. Sophomore rhetoric increases rather than diminishes the evil, because the least attractive side of the study is presented. We ought rather to read good English than attempt to correct bad; and rhetoric, naturally connected with composition, is, by the present system, entirely divorced from it. Recitations in rhetoric are attended, themes are written; but what connection between the two exists in the mind of the student? Our English electives, too, are deficient, not in quality...