Word: circusing
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...come. The long-expected, the widely advertised, the unparalleled circus has come, and we have seen it. There were those who sneered at the superlative adjectives on the large red and blue posters; there were others who refused to believe that any show could equal Barnum's; but they all now agree that the posters, far from exaggerating, did not half express the wealth of this circus, and that it beat Barnum...
...reward. Lost or strayed from a circus passing through Cambridge, a giraffe, about 18 ft. in height. He is supposed to have strayed into the College Yard, and sunk over his head in the mud. The above reward will be paid to any one who discovers his fossile...
...more so. Indeed, in his own estimation there never was any one quite so erudite as himself. He can correct Homer's Greek, or pick a flaw in Newton's mathematics. He is, in his small way, a living dictionary, and as versatile as a trained poodle at the circus. But has he not a kind of fellow-feeling with students, - from whom he is removed by only a few years? Hardly; for that would be beneath his dignity, and he seems to have forgotten the good old days when he did not get high marks, and sometimes went...
...Venus and red-lipped Mars."SOME queer subjects are worked into the editorials of college papers. The Princetonian has one on a circus that is coming their way. The College Argus turns itself into a Republican "organ" for the occasion, and grinds out six columns of wrath and words on the town elections...
Sept. 25. - Law-pills are rolled. Memorial Hall opens its Architectural Exhibition and Grand Ethiopian Circus...