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Around the guiltless, virtuous head...
...same color and material as the skirt and was full in front with plaited puffs on the shoulders and very tight sleeves, and was finished off at the neck by an old-fashioned and very broad lace collar. Her hair was cut short and rumpled all over her head, and she wore neither flowers nor jewelry. Asphyxia being tall and and very slender and wearing eyeglasses, reminded one of the picture I have seen somewhere of "an old baby." The child having gray hair and an old face and smoking a cigar, is represented with a bib on and tied...
...much to be hoped that the university will be able to secure a professor of German before the beginning of the next academic year. The college has excellent instructors in that department at present, but it is becoming very evident that a head to the department should be appointed, and that its courses and methods of instruction should be thoroughly reorganized and arranged anew. Of course time is required for the selection of a competent incumbent for the position, but it must be remembered that the interests of the present suffer with the continuance of the delay...
...first Monday after the class races. The committee appointed to attend to the dinner are Messrs. Denniston, Chapman and Lloyd. Mr. Perrin was elected toastmaster; Mr. Hubbard, orator; Mr. Warren, poet; and Mr. Dorr, chorister. It was voted that the price of the dinner should not exceed $2.00 per head. The committee to receive bids from photographers consists of Messrs. Curtis, Binney and Kellogg...
...various subjects assigned for the college forensick disputations;" solutions of problems in mathematicks; discussions in natural history; "compositions in the classical languages;" "essays of a moral and religious import;" "a part of every number shall be unalienably devoted with religious sacredness to original poetry;" and finally, "under a miscellaneous head anything which shall seem properly introduced into a literary journal." Taste and zeal truly robust! How the pallid young collegian of today shrinks aghast at such a programme of literary diversion. And then the editors, speaking through the young Edward Everett, say out bravely and patriotically (this was in July...