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...first place, smoke no cigars, drink no wine, own no armchair, and stick to the law, Tom, without a poney. I've had an easy time in college, and have enjoyed well the 'Otium cum dignitate' - the learned leisure of a scholar's life - always despising digging, you know, and what with ticking, screwing and deading, am candidate for a piece of parchment tomorrow, certifying that I am admitted to be by all A. B., which being interpreted is A Booby, a passport all the world over...
...London correspondent of the Norwich Bulletin writes the following: "It is about time for the representatives of Yale and Harvard colleges to come here and agree upon the preliminaries of the race to be rowed next summer. To be sure they know what the course is, know the race is to be rowed here, and by consultation with Daboll's almanac could decide on the day and hour without coming here, but they always come and we are always glad to see them come. By the way, when the river is bridged at the point what are we going...
...principal work between the pulls, for he has to hold almost the entire pull if the enemy make a sudden effort which is not quickly responded to by his team. Every one finds a tug-of-war the most trying exercise when first practised, because he does not know how to husband his strength, by resting between the heaves when the whole strain is borne by the anchor. Another cause of over-exertion is in not understanding the proper use of the legs, which really should bear the principal strain. In this respect, the tug-of-war is much like...
...here, Oscar Wilde, you sing trash of the blankest-blank kind, and I know...
...have been going the rounds of the press, seem to us shocking, and serve to show how far behind the rest of the world China is in the matter of civilization. The following, clipped from the New Enterprise of Charlestown may be interesting to our readers who desire to know the fate of those poor students who were recalled by their government from this country, and torn away from the paths of learning and the refining influences of a higher civilization than their...