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...definitely solved, as he supposes, this Chinese puzzle, he happily pursues the even tenor of his way during his sophomore year. He feels perfectly satisfied and at ease concerning his future studies, when, lo! some bright - or rather, cloudy - morning, he awakes and finds a new Elective Pamphlet is born to injure his peace of mind by a change in the grouping of the courses...
...Adam and Eve playing behind an apple tree sowing leaves together to make an apron or the dens and caves in the earth for a habitation. The future of the past eclipsed by humanity to man the heaven of the mind. Shakespere divides greatness into three characters, first born great, second to have greatness thrust upon you and third to make yourself great...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The correspondent in yesterday's HERALD betrays the animus of the whole article in his signature - "One who did not Draw a Room." Because he was born under an unlucky star, this writer has to vent his spleen in the columns of a college daily. Every one knows these men, whenever one of them thinks that the whole world has ceased for a moment to be at his feet, he rushes into print. When he sees his complaint in print he imagines that the fancied evil is done away with...
...claimed, alas ! that Fitzgerald, the bunco steerer, is a graduate of Harvard. His natural depravity is not explained by this fact. It is explained by the fact that he was born near St. Louis...
...discovered to me the character of Mrs. Butterfield. She was of a religious turn of mind, probably the daughter of a Methodist circuit rider, and had made a resolve, in early life, during the Sunday school book period, that her first born son should be a minister, and backed by her mother and after innumerable conferences with her Bible, she had tearfully bullied Mr. Butterfield into naming their first born Benjamin. Knowing, as I did, that Benjamin Emilius had inherited some of the puritanical precocity of his mother, I felt very strongly that he would be surprised...