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...judiciously advertising. After killing three lions, an elephant, six leopards, crushing the skull of an ox, kicking down a frame house and eating ten or twelve slaves, he was pitted against one of the stock company of gladiators, Totus Idem. We cannot speak too highly of the ease and grace of Pugnus. After some amusing by-play, such as gouging out each other's eyes, tearing ears, etc., the combatants went at it in earnest. It was a royal fight, and the emperor showed his appreciation by now and then throwing a virgin into the bear-pits...
...those who transgressed college laws, and in all that time I never once heard of one's being broken." The N. Y. Herald reports that quiet now reigns in Princeton: "No longer does the principal thoroughfare resemble a street scene in a Christmas pantomime. The undertakers' signs cease to grace the fronts of chemists' shops. That hazing has had a knock-down at Princeton there can be no doubt...
...former dignity and grace my Queen...
...With a grace that...
...beauty, wit, and grace...