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...Every now and then when the spirit moved them they groaned dismally until their destination was reached. Then they gathered round the funeral pyre and listened to a gag poem which was recited by the Harnspex of the class. He was followed by the Carnifex who offered up the burnt sacrifice and then the figure of Legendre itself. As the last semblance of the hated mathematical Gend was lost and the effigy was only a mass of ashes, the whole throng of happy sops broke forth into joyous shouts and then separated to go home...
...Saturday evening a firebrand was thrown into the cellar of Stoughton, and might easily have set the building on fire. On Monday evening there was an enormous fire within a few feet of the library. At one time Gore ball was enveloped in smoke. Should that building be burnt, the college would suffer an irreparable loss. If we must have the traditional bonfire, let it be on Jarvis field, or in some spot where no danger to any property can be apprehended. But why the faculty should forbid the brass band to lead a procession through the yard...
...appeal for money for Park College the following sentiments appear: "Park College wants the raw materials with which to rebuild its recently burnt building-the boys will do the work. Yale cultivates rowing and produces oarsmen. Park cultivates skilled and useful industry, and produces self-reliant preachers, businessmen and farmers. The one understands the "Oxford stroke," the other the business stroke. The one will stop on a strand. The other will only stop long enough on the mountain top of success to get a good view of the world, when he will take wing-Excelsior...
...altars composed of alternate layers of clay, sand, stones and ashes, no cement being used with the stones, which varied from the size of a hen's egg to several dounds in weight. The tops of the altars were concave and filled with fine sand, a portion of the burnt clay having been evidently removed. Judging from the solidity of the structures fires must have been kept burning in them for long periods of time. In these mounds were found a number of human skeletons, which from the position in the ashes of the remains prove conclusively that these people...
...been toasted several days before? Why is it that if a person happens to arrive a few minutes after half-past-five he has to eat cold vegetables or none? And why is it that if a person orders a steak, or some griddle-cakes, they come up either burnt to a crisp, or not half done? It seems to me that either we should have new cooks, or else those in our employ should have a special superintendent appointed over them to see that they serve things decently. I will not complain of the wretchedly poor cooking...