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...country should take a just pride. Yet the number who acquaint themselves with these things by observation as well as reading is small. Every year many students, to spend their long vacation, hurry off to Europe, are dazzled and delighted by the brilliancy of its splendid capitals, and come back with bad French and worse German, but have never visited either Lexington or Concord, and can scarcely tell the causes which gave them a prominence in our history...
...very cold. Have to take a little brandy. The cause demands our health. Urbane bar-tender. Freshman starts and drops his glass; we look up and observe mysterious stranger handing a paper - apparently sealed - to bar-tender. Bar-tender smiles and burns it. Evident necessity for concealment. Back to hotel by a circuitous route; pile all available furniture against the door, and load pistols to the muzzle. A little afraid they may go off in the night, but sleep in conscious innocence...
...reporter) advance and corroborate; also arrest us for vagrancy. Loathsome Bastiles. Bailed out by colporteur, who proves to be connected by marriage with Freshman's god-father. Afterwards learn that the blockade-runner only escaped by going to pieces. Crew saved by a large Newfoundland dog. Hate grinding up back work...
...editors of the Anvil have somewhere gotten possession of a back number of Old and New, and in an editorial they criticise the "regatta literature" of the periodical in question very severely. We should be very happy to quote them and let Harvard know what Dartmouth thinks; but the ungrammatical structure of their article is a bar to our so doing, from a feeling of deference to the Magenta and its readers...
...night last week a Sophomore was spending the evening at the rooms of some lady friends. After delaying his departure as long as good manners would permit, he confessed his fear of being "gobbled" by the "Fresh." His fair friends agreed to accompany him back to his room. Accordingly, with three "high-school gum-drops" as his escort, he sallied forth; and so did the "Fresh"; and the result was that the "Soph" was pumped. He is now trying to persuade the unprejudiced public that he was going home with the girls. - Chronicle...