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...will never once meet with that strange creature, the literary butterfly. Yet it is not a rara avis of which I speak; nor do I tell quaint fables of learned animals of the olden time; for even now, here in our midst, several species of this animal are found. To speak scientifically, literary butterflies are bipeds, of the genus Homo. Their bodies are regularly shaped and their wings, though formed of thin tissues of imagination, often grow to great size. Breaking out from the cocoon of indifference to every mental pursuit which often surrounds their boyhood or girlhood...
...Latin lesson included the story of the Lernean Hydra. From that moment my mind was made up. I rushed to my room, seized a match, and with true Herculean courage burned off my parasite completely. But alas! I soon found out that the real essence of a mustache and a hydra differs; for the former, to my chagrin, kept on growing as usual, and its color seemed to have gained in brilliancy from the fire-baptism...
...would seem that at last the royal road to learning had been found. Most of our readers in Cambridge have already heard of the great increase in our facilities for learning which the kindness of our instructors proposes to offer next year. It is intended that, on two or three evenings of the week, the instructors in the various languages shall hold readings, like those we have at present by Professor Child and Professor Palmer, so arranged that in the course of four years every undergraduate may, without undertaking any extra work, be able to become acquainted with the writings...
...Bowdoin Orient failed to understand our article on "Gentilshommes, Bourgeois, Artistes," but found many typographical errors therein. We are sorry that we went in too deep for the Orient, but think that the typographical errors which so troubled the mind of their exchange editor must have had a subjective, rather than an objective existence...
...from having been made the object of some light feminine chaff about Harvard's taste in selecting so homely a color. In those days - as now indeed - we sometimes wore a straw hat with magenta ribbon, and some old faded magenta cravats made by the chaffers might possibly be found in forgotten boxes. It is highly probable that the oarsmen of about '60 have preserved as trophies their handkerchiefs so often worn to victory, and although the shade might not be exactly the same fashion to-day calls magenta, it would be found to be substantially the same, and evidence...