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...versa," thus enlightened some colored compatriots the other day: "I cannot desplain pezactly," he said, "so to meet wid your compredehension, but wiser-wersa am an propriation from de Latn, and means wuss and wuss and mo' of it. I members stumblin' ober it at colledge. It am a hard word to pronounce...
...been given a fair trial here, and thus far no good reason has appeared to justify its existence, much less to warrant its further continuance. Wherein the influence of the nines that have thus far played in Cambridge, is any better than that of professionals, would be a hard question to answer. We certainly do not get as good practice from them as we should from professional teams, and every other nine in the college league has the benefit of professional practice. Under these circumstances we hope the faculty will see fit to consider carefully the question of rescinding...
...largest animal treated, and will be used in taking up the ailing horses, etc., brought for treatment. The building is to be heated with steam, and will have water on every floor. It will be thoroughly ventilated, and will contain all conveniences and appliances. The stalls are of hard pine and iron, and will be constructed after the most approved models. There will be accommodations for ten horses at a time, and space for a few cows and other animals. The room for dogs is to be properly fitted up with all the modern improvements...
Hanlon and Lee are hard at work on the Merrimac...
...stranger receives no answer at all. He probably is some-what astonished that a natural and civil inquiry as to the significance of a conspicuous and quite peculiar decoration is met with the rebuke implied in blank silence. It is a kind of response which he finds it hard to reconcile with ordinary standards of civility. To put on a peculiar, if not grotesque, badge or decoration which inevitably challenges inquiry as to its meaning-a natural and proper inquiry on the part of an acquaintance-and then to be dumb when any remark is made respecting it, strikes...