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...desire to do something original. He proposed to cross the mill-pond on the logs, casually remarking that it was perfectly safe. His girl - well, she trusted in Diggles and went; so did a youth from Amherst (Diggles said he always went everywhere). The others prudently sat on the bank and waited. Every voice was hushed, every heart stopped beating, as hand-in-hand the dauntless three approached the margin of the deep black waters...
Which sleeps on Arno's bank; and, musing...
That filled the air. Before me sloped the bank...
...weeks ago, a woman fell overboard from a bridge under which the crew had just passed. The crew naturally turned their boat as soon as possible, and hastened to the rescue, arriving in time to be of very material service to a man who had put out from the bank to the woman's assistance, in getting her ashore. The writer of the above-mentioned article playfully insinuates that the crew merely lay on their oars and amused themselves by watching the woman's frantic struggles in the water, without going to her aid; and he ends up his article...
...Charles River Bank is not exempt from that most strikingly inconvenient feature which most small country banks exhibit: we mean the discount of from ten to twenty-five cents on checks on other banks, when cashed for those who do not keep a deposit there. This is intended as an inducement to keep an account there; but as this is inconvenient to a great number of students, we should like to suggest to the proper authorities of the College, that in the Bursar's office a sufficient amount of cash be kept on hand to enable students to have checks...