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...hair stood on end. I had to reply, and so misinterpreted her. "I wish," said I, "you'd finished off Homer before I began him. I burnt my copy, but to attack the old man himself was more than any but a feminine mind would have dared. Did you hang him in effigy? That might be called going it on a bust...
...general report that the Lampoon has altogether ceased to be a college paper turns out to be quite false. It is true that several of the editors are no longer undergraduates. At the end of last year it appeared that there were so few men in college who were at once able and willing to join the staff of the Lampoon, that either the paper must be dropped, or the old editorial board must continue to manage it. The latter alternative was chosen, and the paper remains in the same hands in which it was last year. The popularity which...
...solid, sustained, faithful work, and lead his class. Who are the men who are destined to fall into these various positions? Unlike the impatient novel-reader, we cannot satisfy our curiosity by glancing at the last few pages, but must patiently wait for the denouement, - till the year's end...
...this plan can be carried out, either at once or in the spring, there is every reason to believe that we can place boating on a firm footing, put an end to its hand-to-mouth struggle for existence, and arouse for it some such steady interest and genuine liking as that which makes the formation of good crews so easy a matter in the English universities; and maybe we can have as good a time with rowing as they...
...whole management, while under his care, has been a marvel of correctness, exactness, and faithfulness. At the age of eighteen, we are told, he wrote the history of the town of Duxbury; entered this College in the class of '53, but for some reason left at the end of the Sophomore year, and went to Europe, where he remained for three years. His degree was given him in '68. Returning from Europe, he settled in Boston; was elected Trustee of the Boston Library, and was called upon to make out the Annual Report. This he did with such exhaustive thoroughness...