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...SYSTEMATIC Soph declared to his friends that he had fixed the date for his three annual bats. The next night a friend saw him describing a cycloid with the central point of the brick in his hat, and said: "Why, Smith, I thought your first date was three weeks later?" "Er - hic ! - feller mush get into training, yer know...
...captain, Mr. Tyler, who was in turn followed by Mr. Jaques, the spokesman of the editors elect from '76, Mr. Swift, '77, and Mr. Prince, '73, who spoke for the past editors. Others followed, till the parting toast of the evening was proposed by Mr. Everett to his friend and pupil, Mr. W. R. Tyler, the President of the Advocate board, who was prevented by sickness from being present. The latter gentleman's duties as presiding officer were admirably performed by Mr. Sanger, to whom is due in large measure the success with which the occasion passed off. After singing...
...wonderful, not long ago a Professor remarked, how much a man of my age comes to know. That Agassiz estimated his own learning but small is clear; fishing with a friend, to an inquiry he said, while confessing his ignorance, that his lifetime hardly offered a beginning for the labors his science demanded...
...propose here to discuss the claims of oratory. Everybody - even our conservative friend of the Advocate - who knows the means by which free speech is made influential in a democracy like ours, will, theoretically at least, take its utility for granted. The question at issue is the time at which the study and practice of the art should be commenced. According to our author, "a man must have a vast number of well-arranged facts and settled opinions before he can speak off-hand with ease." In other words, after years of cloister student-life, in which his learning...
...Call from old-time Freshman friend; nearly bursting with news; however, does not burst. Wants us to go to Cuba with him in Uncle's blockade runner; interpreter needed; six weeks of Spanish verbs ought to be good enough for Cuba; we assent. Question arises about softening Faculty; Freshman has got off on account of religious scruples concerning required rhetoric. Some new dodge eminently necessary. At Freshman's suggestion sit up forty-eight hours reading diamond Tupper, take a good look at the sun, and go to see the Dean. Dean says "No," and a public for insolence; learning...