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...region twenty-five miles square about the head of the Delaware River, in New York, furnishes four of Yale's editors. - Yale Courant...
...probation," or what not, may be fatal. Let men be told after having passed their examination, or even summon them and then report conditions; but to mention casually to a man writing for dear life with a long paper, a limited time, and an aching and possibly slightly muddled head, that "you were conditioned in - ," results, in nine cases out of ten, in upsetting him and spoiling his work. Men are not mere machines, and cannot be stopped momentarily and told of failure, and then expected to go right to work again and do just as well...
...snatched up the cup and held it over the flame. If I could warm the water soon enough I should be saved - if not - the laudanum - how cold it was - it was nearly bedtime - I was so sleepy. A drowsy confusion of thought filled my brain. My head nodded. The narcotic was winning the race. I was almost unconscious, when, as fortune would have it, one of my long mustachios - of which I was exceedingly proud - touched the flame of the candle. In an instant the hair blazed up, and the sudden heat aroused me from my stupor. I started...
...crown your haughty head...
...brown silken tresses that circle thy head...