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...paranourasia" and says : "The inveterate punster soon comes to regard words as mere symbols on which he is to strike the tinkling changes of his word-music; he takes all the beauty out of Homer's "winged words" by making them shuttlecocks which he is to bandy back and forth at the mere catch of sounds...
...sorry to admit, has characterized the actions of some in previous years. The Post man goes on to say that students in colleges have left behind them that careful surveillance which as boys curbed their restlessness and "bumptiousness." "Bumptiousness" is a good word, and we feel sorry to call forth the powers of invective and sarcasm of the Post man who copyrighted it, by asking what it means. But, nevertheless, we do ask, and hope soon to be informed...
...matter is causing considerable excitement here, and may call forth a reply to his letter. The report has been current among the papers that Williams students broke up an entertainment here, and were so disorderly at one given in North Adams, that the police were called in. Both of these reports are fabrications, and utterly false...
...mind thus made more retentive of the forms of good style. But if this is the end desired, why not choose the selections with a wider reference to the beauties of French literature? The passages set are mostly disconnected and uninteresting, and the ability to recite them calls forth an effort of the mind that might be better applied to something more valuable and of more literary worth. Detached passages are given whose few paragraphs in no wise represent a connected thought or anything in particular. No good or pleasure results; the process degenerates into a mere effort of memory...
...shaketh in its boots, and feareth that day when the Charles R. R. R. shall blossom forth in all its wealth of accommodations. The student in the early morn cometh from his prayer meeting in the metropolis and chattereth his teeth and shivereth in the refrigerator car. The company forsooth appreciateth the freshness of his victim and desireth that it shall not spoil...