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...distance the blue air of Boston. The great questions to be solved were these : Do the blue waves lick the ocean? Is Chelsea built on terraces formed by fish bones from Tafts or by the sea? We thought so. After this solution the instructor was all broke up, and said he wanted a solution with a little glacier in his; but Chelsea being a temperance town it was not to be considered. Finally we decided that each man should choose a hill, go up, take a nap, and afterwards we would meet near Malden, tell our dreams and lunch...
...broke a peeler's head...
...seconds, amidst great excitement. After a short rest the teams changed sides, and made ready for the second tug, which '82 secured by hard work in the same time as the previous one, 40 seconds. The final bout was won, amid great excitement, by '82. The meeting then broke up with nine cheers for Mr. Augustus Hemenway...
...sound the deep-hung silence broke...
Again, when a student has four examinations on four successive days, as was frequently the case during the late mid-years, it is a physical impossibility to do himself justice, - a fact that the rank-list will probably bring to light, - and not a few broke down under the pressure. This mixed system of hour and mid-year examinations is, then, very unsatisfactory, if not pernicious, in its result; and one way of getting rid of the difficulty is to have no hour examinations, and give all the marks on the mid-years and annuals, but with the time...