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...Brattle Street for a jug of ale. I was just mounting the steps of Holworthy with the beverage, when J., a monitor, espied me. Coming up, he asked me whom it was for. I would not tell him, whereupon he poured the ale out on the ground and broke the jug. Moreover, he reported me to the Faculty. F., by the way, when I managed to reach his room, without the desired liquor, kicked me downstairs, using very bad words the while. So to-day, when I refused to say more about the ale than that I had fetched...
...Haley, Oakland (Cal.) Athletic Club, in a 1/4-mile handicap on November 20 last, broke the best amateur records at 300 yds. and 350 yds., making the distance in 32 5/8 seconds and 38 1/4 seconds respectively, the previous best records being 34 1/5 and 39 seconds, each held by Myers...
...Professor at last broke the silence. "I could sleep no more that night: I had a repelling horror of the thought, - a fear lest I might dream again. I sat there till the cold light of dawn broadened in the east, and the moon slowly whitened away to nothingness. Then I dressed myself, and, stepping out upon the upper balcony, watched the sunrise. As the colors warmed and deepened on the hills, and the broad ocean sparkled and shimmered, - so unlike that ghostly moon-swept sea of my dream, - this sense of oppression grew less vehement, as all such feelings...
After cheers for '81 and for the Chairman, Mr. Burdett, the meeting broke up at 11.10 P. M. being acknowledged by all as unanimous, orderly, and satisfactory as the class could desire...
Just then an ominous growl broke upon my ears. I trembled violently, and my teeth rattled with fear. There was a rustling in the bushes - I looked up - I saw a horrid great creature with switching tail and fiery eyes. I wonder that I did not faint; perhaps I had self-possession enough to recognize the uselessness of such a proceeding; nevertheless I was paralyzed with fear, for the gates of eternity seemed about to engulf...