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...students tends to defeat this custom, which is as old and settled almost as the country itself of "home-gatherings" as regards the majority of the students. Of course we all love our Alma Mater, but we can't help wishing for the one or two more "grains of corn...
...division aids will wear a soft black hat or chapeau, dark sack coat, white gloves or gauntlets, white trousers, top boots or leggings and will carry a baton. The Chief of Division will be distinguished by a corn color and white sash; division aids by red sashes, which will be worn over the right shoulder and fastened at the left side...
...building of Harvard, the patrons of which were not the wealthy few, but the mass of the poor. Gifts of money and of utensils - even to a silver beer-bowl and a jug tipped with silver - were contributed; and to these were added offerings of the peck of corn annually, of meat and ewe lambs, and of everything that could be turned into money. Thus the colonial colleges grew up "out of the sacrificial generosity of the heart of the people...
Then there were little boxes in the window with odd labels, such as "Peerless Corn Salve;" "In Excelsis Bug Exterminator; buy it, try it, and be no longer annoyed with cockroaches in your kitchen;" "Patent Labor-Saving Cleaning Powder," with the face of a female with abundant hair reflected in a table-spoon, and the like...
...wrinkles are the grave of love, false teeth may truthfully be described as the tombstones. - Corn. Bulletin...