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...pleasure. In putting the shot and throwing the ham mer, in the broad jump, in the 100 yards, and in hurdle, the wearers of the blue and white will probably render a good account of themselves, but parental fears will probably nip their all-around championship aspirations in the bud. The parents of Brooks and Hamilton regard athletic training as just a trifle less dangerous than working a battery on Cemetery Hill, and the blue and white brigade will therefore, in all probability, be minus Brooks and Hamilton's valuable services. - Sportsman...
...first group is small. A very few flowers like our Violet, are completely fertilized before the bud opens, - the stamen and pistil coming into contact...
...have noticed two classes of individuals which these trying times produce, who ought to be ostracised by their fellow men, and, as it were, withered in the bud. We mean the growlers, and those of coroner instincts who hold post-mortems over their examinations. The growler, unlike his bibulous namesake, is a cause of depression and nervous exhaustion wherever he goes. It is enough, in the agonies of a protracted grind, to feel your own ignorance and shortcomings without having some lugubrious acquaintance darkly accusing the faculty, the fates, and the well - others, for things for which his own misapplication...
...16th century. It is he who, a little earlier in the same century, aimed at higher game than the poor astrologer and alchemist, and, had he not been frightened off by a well aimed inkstand, might have succeeded in his very natural desire to nip the Reformation in the bud by carrying off Luther himself. Later on, about the end of the 18th century, the same Devil appeared to have become such a very active mover in the world, that he inspired a number of very similar poems among English poets. Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley all wrote short satires...
...that Princeton's hope die in the bud...