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...hoped that a large number of persons may enter for the Hare and Hounds. Those who have ever participated in one of these long runs across country will know how healthful and exhilarating exercise it is, and new-comers will enjoy the sport enough to improve every opportunity of taking part in it. We wish the hares and the hounds a pleasant afternoon...
...ever-varying circumstance...
...went round to the Richter's office to get another card, but his door was likewise impervious. "Crushed again" would have aptly described my feelings as I went back to my lodging. Here I had been already three days at work and was just as far from matriculating as ever. However, although Nil desperandum is not the motto on my coat-of-arms, I resolved to adopt it on this occasion...
...with very great regret that we hear of the resignation of the Dean. No officer of the university has gained more entirely the respect and esteem of the students. His official dealings with them have ever been marked with consideration and courtesy. He has ever displayed a real interest in their welfare that has not failed to make itself felt. Student nature is much less demonstrative in its likes than in its dislikes. While it never hesitates to give expression, through the indirect but effective means of satire, to its disapproval of men or measures, it is always rather backward...
...face, and involuntarily gave him a tender glance. This was a spark in tinder. Ching seized her hand, and poured out his pentup passion in a resistless torrent. The maiden's breath was quite taken away, at the first plunge in this deluge of sentiment. She listened with ever-increasing alarm, until she found a chance to implore, "No more! oh, no more!" But Ching was fairly beside himself; his love told, he prayed her to assure him of its return. He had held her hand; he threw his arm round her waist, drew her to his breast, and bent...