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...sound of one's own voice is generally so delightful that many persons are unmindful of its effect on the weary listener, who has unfortunately been bound a captive to the prosy tyrant's ambition for a subject...
Yale was especially weak between the pitcher's points, an up-hill game evidently not being Carter's forte. Tyng caught remarkably well. Ernst pitched effectively. Winsor and Holden made remarkable fly catches. Thayer caught a seemingly impossible foul bound. Nunn and Latham fielded finely, while Howe...
Omar Khayam, or Omar the Tent-maker, is the Horace of Persia. He was born in Khorassan, about the middle of the eleventh century of our era, and died in the year 1123. His life was passed in astronomical studies, and he probably composed his quatrains, which are bound together by no logical connection, in the intervals of his professional work...
...last of all there was a race of three legs, which contest is of this sort: two youths being bound together as to their inner legs, endeavoring thus to run, fall on the ground many times, as is likely. And the race was won by two youths, more young and tender than their companions, and called by them Freshmen...
...form an opinion as to whether good reading, in such an elective as this in Shakespeare, is or is not necessary; as to whether it is merely a blessing for which, if he gets it, the instructor is to be humbly thankful, but to enforce which he is not bound to make an effort; or else an absolute requisite, and worthy of the greatest amount of time and attention. In other words, "Is it a part of the study of Shakespeare to read Shakespeare well...