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...granted me to know...
...gentlemen, sufficiently prominent to be fairly termed representative men, corrected compositions, which he requested them to distribute among the thirty or forty classmates in the room. They endeavored to do so, and in a few moments it was apparent that after three years in college they did not know several of their classmates by sight. The class traditions which they cherished there must have been confined to a certain portion of the class...
...these writers are so devoid of sense as not to know that such publications are very distasteful to students, they should be made aware of the fact by a more open expression of disapprobation, and by the exclusion of them from their college scenes and pleasures, of which no report at all is preferable to a travesty...
...Madame,' says ze serpent, 'charme de vous voir.' 'Hola, mon ami! ar-r-etez-vous,' says Adam; 'stop, stop! Que songez-vous faire? What madness is zeis? You must not peek ze appel.' Ze snake he take one pinch of snuff, he say, 'Ah! Mons. Adam, do you not know zere is nossing prohebeet for ze ladies? Madame Iv, permit me to offer you some of this fruit defendu.' Iv she make one courtesy; ze snake he fill her whole parasol with appel; he say, 'Eritis sicut Deus. Mons. Adam he will eat ze appel, he will become like...
...majesty had rolled, he departed in high dudgeon to the captain's room, and thence degraded the pugnacious officer, putting in his place a retired New York policeman, whose sailing qualifications had been chiefly acquired in frequent trips (in a private capacity) to Coney Island, and, for aught I know, to the sweet repose of Mr. Blackwell...