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...boy," said a conscientious teacher, "do you know why I am going to whip you?" "Yes," replied the young hopeful; "because you're bigger than...
What sanguinary person haunts Memorial Hall. Every week a notice is posted advising students to "take Life from the boy in the auditor's room...
...going up for fire-escapes on college dormitories, although the ordinary college boy is not easily entrapped by fire or anything else. - [N. Y. Times...
Unconscious Repartee.-Uncle Dick (an eminent R. A.)-"Well, Johnny, and what are you going to be?" Johnny-"I shall be a judge, like papa." Uncle Dick-"Ah! but you haven't brains enough, my boy," Johnny-"Oh, then I'll be an artist like you."-[London Punch...
...found necessary from the natural desire of youth for an eccentric and somewhat heterogeneous diet, is the honor system which by holding out a bauble, induces the inconstant youth to adopt a more rational and regular course of intellectual food, much as an indulgent mother persuades her darling boy to eat meat and forego pie by promising him a new rocking-horse. He may eat pie if he chooses and follow it up with a course of equally indigestable pastries, but in that case he will get no rocking-horse. The Harvard youth may, by forfeiting his claim...