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...there he lay, beyond life's laws...
...courses, when enough translation is required to take two hours, besides questions that cannot be satisfactorily answered in an hour and a half, have occurred as usual; and it is a curious fact that these long papers are almost always given by those instructors who habitually prolong their recitations beyond the hour allotted to them. A fair paper seems to be one that the fastest writers can answer in less than three hours, and one in which the important questions are placed first, if the order of a paper means any thing. Where full answers are wished, it seems most...
Yours, '81."Sept. 12, 1771. Having studied late into the night last eve over that very difficult problem in Euclid, called the pons asinorum, I over-slept myself this morning beyond six o'clock. On this account I was unable to cleanse the shoes of my master F., a Senior, but was obliged to hurry to Chapel. Consequently, when I returned after breakfast, F. called me into his room, and taking down a whip he is wont to use in riding, despite my entreaties, he so belabored my shoulders that I almost fainted. This is the first occasion that...
...hurried shave, he hasteneth to the house of music and the dance, and sayeth, "Go to; now will I enjoy myself, eat, drink, and be a masher;" and lo, as he entereth the chamber of the dance, he perceiveth even afar off a maiden of the tribes that dwell beyond the Hudson, - yea, even on the shores of the great seas have they set up their tabernacles, - and lo, the maiden is fair, yea, passing fair to look upon. And the young man seeketh the owner of the house and is presented, which in the language of Kayhmbryjje is knocked...
...enough to make the receipts exceed the expenses by $1,000, the managers would have been opposed to undertaking another Freshman race; but as the attendance was insignificant, in the face of the most favorable circumstances conceivable for attracting people who like to look at Freshmen, the experiment confirmed beyond hope of change the original belief of those managers. They now plainly say, "We will have no more Freshmen races at New London...