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...because you looked so like red-headed Sam Smith who is gone daown to Waterford College." All this volleyed at me in a nasal twang from a mouth lined with bad teeth, accompanied by a healthy smell of onions, was too much for me, and I was driven to the smoking car and the solace of a cigar...
...Howe were especially noticeable on our team, while Blaickloch, Low, Ross, Miller, and Scriver did the most for the Britannias. The umpires were Messrs. Houston for Harvard, and McGibbon and Esdaile for Montreal. In the evening our men were entertained in the Gymnasium, and on Sunday they were driven through the city and park...
...during the mid-years, and the night of the German. My heart was set on attending, but conscience would give me no peace, filling my thoughts with the next day's examinations. Hence there arose that time-honored wrangle 'twixt Duty and Inclination, in which Duty was driven from the field, for Miss Ravissante had firmly convinced me, in the irresistible logic of beauty and artful superlatives, that I was nothing less than indispensable to her enjoyment of the evening, and thus, you know, my going was really a deed of mercy...
...known that that fact was to be spread abroad. Hardly any one knew who were the unsuccessful candidates last year, for the publication of a list of all applicants is an innovation of the Advocate. Let us hope that, in future, that paper may not be driven to disregard the feelings of students for the sake of filling up its item column...
MIST.FOAM of the wind-waves, lightly driven...