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...twilight follow'd hard the trailing sunlight...
...evident from the rapidity and zeal with which it has been taken up of late. On the 5th of November the college championship is to be played for by four colleges, - Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and the University of New York. Our Team now hold the championship, and are practising hard to keep it. Surely they deserve as much recognition from the College for their efforts as a dozen men whose only desire is to while away the afternoon playing "battledore and shuttlecock" for their own private edification...
...watched the ever-roughening sea several minutes in silence. The pier was trembling beneath my feet, and I found it hard to stand upright against the fresh, strong wind. I had never seen such sworls of spray before, nor such a foreboding sky, - a long oblique strip of blackness, like a pall, with ragged edges dipping to the very sea. Then I turned and slowly walked up the path to the little brown house, where the tall elms were swaying madly to and fro. A bright face welcomed me from the window. It was the little granddaughter...
...marvellous. We should have debates such as were never excelled in the palmiest days of the Society. This year is a critical one in the history of the Union, for its founders, those who naturally contributed most to its success, went out with '81. There must be a hard struggle, or the society will be in danger of going under altogether. But there is enough good material left. And if each member will only lay aside false modesty, - identical in this case with indolence, - and determine to say something at least in every debate, the prosperity of the society this...
...rather hard on our ancient friend, I'll acknowledge, but wasn't it absurd? Oh! he's a genius, Jack is; I doubt if there'll be one of you able to sit up in her chair two minutes after he comes into the room. You'll all be rolling off under the sofa, or holding on to the wall for support." and thus I dilated the entire morning on Jack's all-pervading facetiousness, and I had so thoroughly excited the risibility of those nine girls that the mere anticipation of his coming put them into frequent ecstasies...