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...fair name of the College by giving President Grant a degree. Perhaps they expected that the Administration would return the compliment, and make one of our Professors a Brevet Brigadier-General. If they had any such hopes, they were sadly disappointed; the Administration did not live up to the bargain; the President, if he had chosen to, might have signed himself, to his last message, U. S. Grant, LL. D. (Harv.), but we, alas! have not been able to state in our Catalogue that the chair of Belles-Lettres is filled by Brigadier-General James Russell Lowell...
Sell my old hats indeed! As well turn an honest penny by putting up at auction my old keepsakes and gifts. As well exchange my old dog for a nice new one, paying only three dollars for the bargain. As well give up all memory of the old times, if three dollars will substitute a neatly bound new one with such dainty white pages! Sell old hats indeed...