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...When in need it did not secure for him a better place than that of car conductor, and as a car conductor it is no help to him. He can pull the bell to stop and start the car, and can make change no more skillfully than if his head had never ached over a Latin grammar or he had never read a French novel. And yet it would not be advisable to argue from this that all our colleges should be shut...
Most girls have weak arms. If they doubt it, let them try with one hand to push up once high over their head a dumb-bell weighing a quarter or even a fifth of their own weight. Or with both hands catching hold of a bar or the rung of a ladder, as high up as they can reach, let them see if they can pull slowly up till the chin touches the hands. Yet a moderately strong man at dumb-bells will push up one weighing over half his own weight, and some men have managed...
There was the head of a college who used to invite the undergraduates in rotation to breakfast, and formed an estimate of their characters according to the breakfasts which they made. He liked to see the young fellows make a good hearty breakfast. If they did so he thought they were honest, hearty fellows, who were going on in the right way ; but if they did not make a good breakfast, he suspected them of an undue devotion to cigars and ardent spirits. This was rather a rough and ready way of arriving at an estimate, but perhaps...
...with mingled feelings of pleasure and regret that we hear of the possibility of Professor Dunbar resuming his old position at the head of the Advertiser newspaper. We cannot but feel pleased at the compliment which is offered to a member of our faculty and gratified that what may prove a loss to the university will be a gain for a much larger number. But we regret that our department of Political Economy, which is now assuming its proper position of importance should lose its head just when he is most needed. In addition to this, we must regret that...
...buzz and bullet my head against the wall...