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College Days.THEY have been having a public rehearsal of the musical department at Ripon, and College Days has a full and satisfactory account of the proceedings. It pats Miss Alice Clark on the head for being a good player for one of her age, and mentions Miss Merriman for having performed her part in an artful manner. Did she ogle the audience, or what...
...claret would always go to his head...
...other apparatus which we do not find here at present. That most useful exercise, too, of swinging the Indian clubs would be more tempting to the embryo Hercules if there were space for him to indulge in it without being in imminent danger either of splitting open the head of a bystander as the ponderous club swiftly descends, or of meeting a like fate at the hands of another. Room, then, and the consequent increase in the variety of apparatus, is what is needed...
...truly popular poet) in the world of literature. At first, we, in the benighted East, saw the new-born poet only through a cloud of shapeless rumors and perverted facts; but at length the mist cleared away, and disclosed the figure of a tall man, wearing upon his head a great slouched hat, and thrown across his shoulders a United States army blanket, fiercely stroking his mustaches, and pointing with a gleaming knife at an open volume of poems. This was Joaquin Miller. "I give you my honor, sir, that he was born of a half-breed and a Mexican...
Lifted again its drooping head...