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...think the girls had better not box unless they can keep their tempers. That little Spanish Freshwoman, Pepita de Garbansos, knocked the puffs off Susie Flairup's head, and then Susie scratched her, and they both burst out crying, and had to be soothed by the Stewardess...
...while revelling in your texts of Bibl. Teubner., that we poor mortals can get no classics of later date than 1870. Then my pupils will take as models those antiquated old fossils who talked about the rules of euphony, and who translated princeps by chief or emperor, instead of head. In addition to these troubles I have to resist all the time the students' inclination to use Biblical English, or, in default of that, such provincial phrases as no well-educated man can employ...
...Instrumental Club at Elizabeth, and of the University Quartette at Elizabeth and Sing-Sing, as a sign of increased energy in musical affairs." We would suggest that the recent appearance of twenty-four Princeton students in the streets of Trenton as public singers should have been included under the head of "increased energy in musical affairs...
...firmly fixed on the North Star; in one hand he had a compass, in the other a cane. Behind, his arms fast locked about his leader's waist, sat another mathematical genius, one whose smooth boyish face has often caused the timid Freshman to wonder that "one small head could carry all he knew." Behind him, a large, comfortable-looking man; and last a dark-bearded, stem-looking man, whose looks belie his nature. And now they're off! Huzza! a brave start. With such science on board, they scarce can fail to reach the bottom safely. Alas! "the best...
...gone, and, a kind impulse moving me, I rush out from behind the trees, saying, "I'll help you, thou guardian angel of the student." At the first word the sled and occupant vanish, I find myself alone, calmly resting in a snow-bank, my heels where my head ought to be, and the sun just rising over the trees...