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...that there must be an easier and equally sure way of gaining a prize. I think, in fact I feel sure, that I have discovered such a way; and, since I wish to advance the cause of literature at Harvard, I am willing to make it known. It cannot fail to give satisfaction, for it is the result of a careful psychological study of the involuntary workings of an examiner's mind, and brings into due prominence certain details usually neglected but in reality all-important...
...class is not cut up into political parties. So we trust the formation of caucuses and the packing of meetings will not be deemed necessary to secure a fair election. If such a class as '79, which has been characterized by the smoothness of intercourse between its different sections, cannot elect its officers in an open meeting, we shudder for the future of less peaceful classes. What '79 wants, what the College wants, is able and efficient officers, not figure-heads. Whether they belong to this society or to that is a minor consideration...
...experiment at present. Meanwhile the directors have begun a vigorous canvass of the College, in which we wish them all success. Not a few men seem ignorant of the existence of a reading-room, and others forget that it is supported by the subscriptions of students. All these cannot do better than join the association at once...
...that there was just room enough for an iron beam, that broke through the side of the car, to pass between them without striking either of them. Such a miraculous preservation of life, accompanied with the sudden death of the unfortunate people who had gone out for a holiday, cannot fail to arouse in our minds the most serious thoughts, while the fate of the oarsman, whose familiar face will be missed at the boat-house, is a sad event to record. The preservation of the lives and limbs of our friends is a subject for thankfulness and congratulation...
...have the fortune, or rather misfortune, to be at a table each side of which is presided over by a different deity of the dining-hall. I sat meekly down, and looked around for my Henry; but my Henry was nowhere to be seen. A hungry man cannot wait. I was becoming anxious, when suddenly my Henry came rushing from behind the screen...