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...used in some cases. If Mr. Reiley were to call on Mr. Allen, we think the result might be thus described: Alanus, stans pede altero, altero Reileium foras extrusit. There is also the brilliant remark that "compulit (instead of coegit) never occurs with an object infinitive in good Latin." E. g. Ovid (Fasti, III. 860): Compulerunt regem jussa nefanda pati...
...Nothing but an explosion could have roused me. Did n't I feel pure? Yes, almost too pure for this earth. I believe now that a little dirt is healthy. I never wish to come so near being boiled into a spirit again. The Doctor said it was good for a cold. It was; I have had one ever since...
...event, the sporting men must take it in hand; it must lose its distinctive college characteristics, and, like a great public show, must be held at the town of which the citizens offer the highest bids. If, however, the offers of the convention for bids are not made in good faith, then Harvard must be dragged down to take part in a bit of double-dealing, entered into for the purpose of inducing the citizens of a place, already virtually chosen for the regatta, to make more liberal bids through fear of losing the sports...
...trebled in numbers, and when the course is no longer in New England. That is to say, a few gentlemen of the class of '71 have bound Harvard irretrievably for an indefinite time to come, or at least until chance shall give the victory to some crew as good as those she has sent for the last two years, since she can hardly expect to send better ones than these. "And, after all, it is strange that Harvard should wish to row again with Yale alone, against whom she has made so many charges of foul play and ungentlemanly conduct...
...That's good," said Jones. "And now perhaps