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...almost starving, was upon the point of mutiny. He determined to surrender. On the third, the day when Lee's last charge on the Gettysburg heights had failed, Pemberton made terms with Grant. On the next day an army of 30,000 men and the long coveted prize, Vicksburg, fell into the hands of Grant. Johnston was also driven away by Sherman. Four days later, Port Hudson, lower down the river, surrendered to General Banks. The Mississippi was then open from source to mouth, and the Confederacy...
Among the floral decorations at Junior Promenade Concert at Yale, was suspended a large floral foot-ball, bearing the word "champion" in white upon its sides; from it hung two smaller foot-balls, painted crimson and orange and black. During the evening the football, with its appendages, fell and broke upon the floor. Was it an ill omen? [Princetonian...
...real ability was pretty sure to win. A vote was taken as to the merits o the new athletic resolutions and a decided majority was on the negative side. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President. J. M. Wainwright, '84, Columbia; vice-president, A. G. Fell, '84, Princton; secretary, J. L. Ludlow, '86, Lafayette; treasurer, D. B. Bemey, '82, University of Pennsylvania; executive committee, the president, ex-officio, W. M. Burr, '84, Harvard, and A. C. Thompson, '85, Yale...
...lady who has since become his wife, and who was the daughter of a New York banker. The professor's voice has a peculiar, rotund, impetuous quality, and it was never poured forth in greater volume than when he said in one of his lectures: "About this time Goethe fell in love with a rich banker's daughter in New York city." There was a roar from the students, while boots and canes rattled upon the floor like an avalanche of cobble stones in a shot tower. Boyesen covered his crimson face with his hands and turned his back...
...After a careful investigation of accounts, Talfourd made an elaborate calculation during the publication of "Nicholas Nickleby" by which it appeared that for three years previously Dickens ought to have been making L10,000 a year out of his writings. The circulation of the monthly parts of "Martin Chuzzlewit" fell to 25,000 a month from a circulation of 40,000 a month obtained by "Pickwick" and "Nickleby." This best of his books was the least successful of all his works on first publication, and, I believe, brought him the least money. So far as I remember, L7000...