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...Pourri, "Brangle-Brink" (Hasty Pudding Production, 1896), Carpenter...
...movement which has right upon its side and its power is one which cannot lessen, but must increase with every day. There are times in the affairs of men when resolutions are necessary. At such times those who adhere to the past, perish miserably. We are living on the brink of a social revolution. Now is the time to make real merit the basis of our consideration, and to annihilate that provinciality and suicidal folly which has been cherished so lovingly in the past...
...have come home on his three-bagger in the third inning. Wiestling and Beaman also hit hard. In the first inning Hunt got in a hit for Amherst, and then Stuart came to the bat and made a long drive to the right field; the ball rolled over the brink of the hill before Winslow could get his hands on it, and so Stuart ran home. After this Nichols pitched very effectively, the Amherst men making but three hits the rest of the game, though a number of long flies were sent to the outfielders...
Bernhard Ten Brink's "History of English Literature," a work universally admitted by the best judges to be the most excellent and scholarly ever written on the subject, is to be reprinted in this country by Holt & Co., New York...
Thou art the green serpent that lurks in its brink...