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Waves o'er his head like a weeping willow...
...finding out why Moses was like a bull-rusher. The dancing was a striking success, and the little farce was perhaps as good as anything. A little more practice and a little more attention to their singing would make a marked improvement. Among the audience we noticed the head waiters, Mr. Farmer, Mr. Worcester, and other local celebrities...
...advisory board and elect the referee. But the Marshal is to be held responsible, and therefore will be careful; for the blunders, if there are any, he must answer for, and can shift the blame on no convenient committee. The plan seems worthy of consideration, as certainly one head is better, as a directing power, than several...
Miss Susan B. A. Smith, stroke of the Vassar crew, fainted dead away; the Wesleyan crew ceased rowing, and initiated an impromptu prayer-meeting; while Ephraim G. Stubbs, livid with fright, set his crew a tremendous stroke, in order to put a safe distance between his woolly head and the tomahawk of the red-skin...
...this juncture "the colored crew pulled nobly," seeing which, Bruiser, bow-oar of Yale, raised his oar, and brought it down upon the devoted head of Ephraim G. Stubbs with great violence...