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...Perin, and Warren (anchor); '83 - Hammond (captain), Curtis, Kip, Morrison, and Sawyer (anchor). The first pull was won, after a sharp struggle, by '83, in 40 seconds, amidst great excitement. After a short rest the teams changed sides, and made ready for the second tug, which '82 secured by hard work in the same time as the previous one, 40 seconds. The final bout was won, amid great excitement, by '82. The meeting then broke up with nine cheers for Mr. Augustus Hemenway...
...present form, the Elective Pamphlet is little more than a bare list of the different courses, and it gives the least possible assistance to a student in selecting his studies. If the student be a Freshman, it is doubly hard to make a selection of studies that will suit him; because he knows few upper classmen from whom to get information about the different courses. Take, for example, the following from the Elective Pamphlet:* "NATURAL HISTORY 4. Geology. Three times a week. Professor SHALER. Course 4 can be taken twice a week, omitting the field work, if notice to that...
...mistake; they are not old, - they have got beyond the boundaries of time, and like an alarm-clock they point continually to a fixed time years and years ago when their ideas were aroused. Since then they have remained stationary. They do not die, - they dry up (how hard it must be for some of them to do this!) until, like mummies, they become remarkable as specimens...
...disease takes this phase: "This rose I had from Kate. She was the most grandly beautiful woman I ever saw; we met at Baltimore, during that Southern trip I took last spring, when the Faculty thought best, - you remember. I never appreciated Byron till I saw her. No cold hard outlines, but the rounded form of a Venus; the rich red blood of the South shining through the clear, olive-tinted skin. She was not one of those hoydenish creatures that one meets here, but seemed surrounded by an atmosphere of perfect repose. One involuntarily turned to look...
Alas! reformers are bound to get hard knocks in this world, and at the very next recitation, Professor X, in assigning the lesson, told us that he had reserved eleven more books at the Library, which we should find interesting. Evils such as these can't be cured by a valentine...