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...honorary degree, an amusing story persisted at Harvard for almost 100 years, to the effect that "Old Hickory" listened in evident dismay as the degree was conferred in Latin and then accepted the honor with a string of Latin phrases beginning with e pluribus unum and ending with hic jacel. The legend was doubtless due in part to the fact that Jackson was thoroughly hated in New England...
...young continents earthquakes come relatively more often than hic-coughs to children. Therefore, last week, Japanese seismologists prowled about the recent earthquake area (TIME, March 14) with the optimistic smiles of family doctors. They know that the Japanese Islands are still rising from the sea, like so many teeth pushing up through infant gums...
...four pall bearers: the Chaplain, with a very large craped that, and huge eye-glasses; the class, wearing invalied beavers inscribed "63," and having crape tied on the right leg. Behind the coffin were the gravestones made of wood, painted black, with the following inscription in white letters: (Headstone) HIC JACET FOOTBALL FIGHTUM AET LX YRS OBIIT, JULY 2, '60. RESURGAT (Footstone) FOOTBALL, 1860 IN MEMORLAM, (over a winged skull...
...opening story, "Hic Jacet Sepultus," is an unfortunate production in every respect. It is conspicuous by its sensational style and slovenly English, which includes a wearisome use of the historical present and such expressions as "inscrutable weariness." The plot has certainly the merit of extreme originality, but is nevertheless decidedly unpleasant, and an unhealthy, toue pervades the whole story, the presence of which in a college periodical, is to be regretted. The author makes mistakes in the gender of his Latin principle and in his use of m'amie for mon ami and mon amie...
...substamus totam vestram epistolam. Quid in natione sunt "Proctores'? Et "Bull-dogs"? Si ullus Professor hic attemptavict mittere canes post nos, calculamus ut ille preciose cito esset pendens do proxima poste lampadum, condamnatus Judice Lynchio, - alia splendida institutione Americana...