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...college. Of course it is useless to dwell upon the many advantages and pleasures to be gained by such a trip, and it is to be hoped that in time it will be a common thing for at least fifty men to go every summer; and if this ever should come about, by going across in the same ship the cost could be still further reduced...
...Though small and seemingly any thing but robust, it would have been worse than prolepsis - to would have been a terrible anacoluthon - to suppose that his prowess was to be measured by his stature. The fourth of this stout band had the keenest eye and longest head that mortal ever beheld. Clad cap-a-pie in chain armor he surveyed with sweeping glance the whole quadrangle. His single offensive weapon - a sword-cane - he used with such skill and precision that he could transfix an enemy with it every time at an angle of forty-five degrees. The conditions which...
...which has been so generous in the giving of large salaries. The crest of this new society is the picture of a goody with broom and duster in her hand getting ready to sweep, which, it will be observed, is true to nature - that being as far as she ever gets. Beneath will be the Latin motto, "Labor omnia vincit...
...parted in Paris, he to devote several years to study and further travel, I to return to America and begin my life at the University. Just before we shook hands for the last time he gave me a sealed package of papers, with the injunction that, should I ever hear of his death, I might open the package and read its contents. Should I see fit, I might also print them. I put the parcel away and thought little more of it, until, about a month ago, I was saddened to see by the morning papers that he had died...
...friend George ever fell in love with Alice Hadden is - well, inexplicable. His is one of those swift-dividing intellects that seem perpetually to hover about the line that sunders reason and madness, subject to strange dreams and fancies, imaginative to an unhealthy degree. And she was whole matter-of-fact and commonplace, pretty enough, but - pah! what is such a woman when she grows old? But George was undoubtedly, uncompromisingly in love. And so matters came about that they were engaged to be married...