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With peculiar sorrow does his death come at such a time when we look back at the many happy hours we have spent together as well as those dull ones which his presence has brightened and cheered. This sad loss, so near the end of our college course fills our hearts with a gloom of sadness which our coming festivities here will be powerless to dispel...
...Baker in verse entitled "On the Quay at Porta Portese" tells an interesting historical anecdote of pagan Rome. We have already noted a peculiar characteristic of the poetry of Mr. Baker, that of tone. It is here again noticeable. There seems to be a dull hush falling on the lines which serves the purpose of a true onomatopoeia...
DEAR CHAPPIE: - Things are awful dull around here since our anniversary; nothing is going on, except, now and then, a class German, or a club supper. Our president is about to take a short vacation, and it is rumored around among the chaps that he is going to travel with Mr. John L. Sullivan for the purpose of learning to box, as he is going to meet Dr. McCosh with soft gloves in the spring...
...able to derive a style of our own in which the beauties of several languages are combined; by the study of archaeology, by the study of history of any kind, facts which possess a deep significance of their own are laid before us. If our minds are too dull or too lazy to form the necessary conclusions from them, or if we fancy that we can live safely, while we are stumbling along without a knowledge of the perils that have gone before - and that may come hereafter, we are a very pitiful set indeed; and we ought to have...
Another thing: I think there is injustice done in the present mode of awarding scholarships to each class separately, the average of scholarships being different in the various classes, men of equal ability and equally good records are treated differently. The one who happens to be in a dull class gets perhaps $200, while the other, whose class is superior, gets left. This was particularly noticeable in the last assignment; a man with 84 per cent. in the sophomore class got a Shattuck scholarship, while men with 87 per cent. in the junior class failed to get anything...