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Daniel Pratt has appeared in his spring hat. It is similar in form to the conventional beaver, but of a snowy white hue. The general effect is quite unique and we congratulate the new Beau Brummel on his new acquisition...
...Both methods [of electives] seem to work satisfactorily, and it is difficult to form a just estimate of their comparative value. But in one important feature our system appears to have a decided advantage. The course pursued at Harvard from its very nature compels the use of the marking system, ours dispenses with it, so far at least as to attempt no nice grading of scholarship by mark...
...best prepared college team. But playing professional teams, in which the collegians have nothing to lose and everything to win, is a very different thing from playing for the championship, when both sides become unnerved by anxiety in regard to the result, and fail to play in the good form they show against the professionals. The coolest team of the three rivals - Harvard, Yale and Princeton - will win the first game of the series they play together. - [N. Y. World...
...peerless phenomenon of the universe will bring a new heavenly revelation to men wherever the language is spoken, and make histrionism reign the empress of all created hearts throughout the limits of civilization." The truth is, that Miss Mather is simply a fair actress, with a handsome face and form. She has been very carefully trained, in fact over-trained, and while she does possess a little talent, she is devoid of the fire of genius, as Mary Anderson. Miss Mather is designed by her managers to burst upon the astonished gaze of the American public with all the effulgence...
...connoisseur in the opening and decanting of ice-cream. Mrs. De Sorosis was telling in an excited manner to a bewildered Irish servant the various ways in which it was possible to get the cream out of the mould without getting the salt into it and without destroying the form in which the cream was moulded. Her instructions were received without visible signs of comprehension by the servant, and Mrs. Butterfield having agreed to slip down and attend to it, they went up to the drawing-room. There they found Asphyxia and two of her friends who were to pour...