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...desiring to see a rather extravagant example of the spirit that crops out in all our exchanges from mixed colleges, will find it in the Cornell Era of May 8, under an article on "Dancing and its Results." They must read the Bible and Prayer-Book a good deal at Cornell, for in two articles in this number they succeed in working in four phrases cribbed from these standard authorities...
...feeling of sleepiness truly irresistible. We will not tell how "sanguine and choleric blood is bluishly affected," or relate the touching apostrophe to "Ontario not as yet loosened from the embrace of her frozen foe," but we ought to say that "Richard and his horse" is made to do good service. A tolling bell suggests that the "patriot has died." We cannot advise any one to seek light reading in the Index...
...morning prayers are that they make us get up in time for recitation, and that they have a religious influence. Through its President, the College has declared that it is satisfied, from experience, that the omission of morning prayers influences neither the attendance at the first recitations, nor our good order and discipline. Since this question concerns the College alone, it is entirely disposed...
...must be coffee, crackers, condensed milk, potatoes, rice, canned meats and vegetables, - in fact, whatever you want that is portable and will keep. The rod should be fifteen to nineteen feet long, split bamboo in three joints being rather the best, although the Irish poles of two joints are good. Tents, too, have to be taken, and tent-life is well enough as a novelty, although the experienced angler prefers the huts of the natives, when there are any. The line, about a hundred yards long, should be of strong silk, the Irish lines the best. Flour I forgot...
...which of course necessitated their stopping at a time of vital importance to them, and when their position near the stake was wrested from them. Yet as soon as possible they started again, and almost recovered the whole ground lost by the end of the race, coming in a good second...