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Four to six inches of snow fell in various parts of Iowa last Saturday...
...went up to the drawing-room. There they found Asphyxia and two of her friends who were to pour out tea for the company and attend to the masculine "small-fry" who might be present. Asphyxia was dressed in a saffron colored cashmere. The skirt was perfectly plain and fell in natural folds to within six inches of the ground; her feet and ankles coming into prominence thereby, were encased in low shoes and yellow stockings which were within a shade or two of the color of her dress. The waist of this costume was of the same color...
...exhibition prize at Yale was very curiously divided this year on the section line between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Leonard. Mr. Johnson is a Kentuckian, a son of Col. Stoddard Johnson, a prominent Democratic editor and politician, and a nephew of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson, the Confederate general who fell at Shiloh. His piece was entitled "The Lost Cause," and was an eloquent, highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand-point...
...Examples are given and corrections made of many faults of language and grammar, including the frequent confusion in the use of verbs and their tenses. A few examples may be given: Apartments to let should be apartments to be let; all over the land, over all the land; it fell on the floor, it fell to the floor; my every hope, all my hopes; he covered it over, leave out over; address your letters, not direct them; he lay on the sofa, not laid; etc. The book is an invaluable aid to any one wishing to converse effectively and correctly...
There were only two performers on the Double Trapeze, T. C. Bachelder, '83, and C. B. Davis, '84. The event was one of much interest. Mr. Wendell announced that Davis had only had a week's practice. Both men performed easily, and acquired confidence as they went on. Davis fell from the trapeze at one time, but was caught by an attendant...