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...gradually diminishing, not from the causes usually given - the failure of the labor system, the absence abroad of President White, co-education, attacks of the religious press and the raising of the standard in studies - but because the university no longer represented clearly-defined ideas about which students could cluster. The character of Cornell's students had accordingly deteriorated; they were not now such men of force as formerly, only one of the leading colleges being as low as, or inferior to it in this regard. The attitude of the faculty toward the students in their methods of government...
...these conspirators got wind of the possession of a quantity of peanuts by the aforementioned freshman - a parting gift from a fond mother or perhaps a sweetheart, as full of hope and trusting courage the youth set out to win his way in college. Peanuts! how many tender associations cluster round this name! Thoughts of boyish joys, remembrance of generous treats, the hoarded pennies invested with the itinerant vendor - and all the recollections that manhood recalls to mind at the mention of this little word. And this parting gift these ruthless despoilers seized with pitiless bands uttering direful threats, unmindful...
...traditions which cluster around the life of a great university, if collected, would furnish material for a voluminous and inspiring volume. It is a work, we believe, which has not yet been undertaken by any one. The following story is told in Michigan University: In the year 1854, Prof. Francis Brunnow came from Leipsic to Ann Arbor, to fill the chair of astronomy and to act as director of the observatory. He was a thorough scholar, the author of a valuable work on Spherical Astronomy, and a man whose services were highly esteemed in the scientific world...
...comfortable-looking yachting costume, very much browned, however, by exposure to a New Hampshire sun; the other was a young woman dressed in much the same manner, except so far as the distinguishing marks of female attire went, with a very jaunty and coquettish hat set atop of a cluster of very bewitching brown curls. He was rowing rather leisurely toward the little white beach - if such it may be called - that bordered the inlet whither they had come; she was holding a Chinese sun-umbrella in a position calculated to shelter her fair face from the inquisitive glance...
...vine, where full grapes cluster...