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...student. The account of the affair is highly dramatic and very edifying. "There had been rumors," it reads, "that students were contemplating a lark, and President Folwell, with Professors Moore and Pike, decided to watch for developments at his house. The night wore on till 2 o'clock or later, when President Folwell discovered a party approaching and started to meet them. They dropped the gates which they bore, and all but one ran back to Fourth street, pursued by President Folwell. This one, who was Asa Paine, the victim of the shooting, ran straight by the president...
...spectators. Yale has assured us that we shall be favored with several hundred men to back their nine, and we need not doubt that they will do so most liberally. Let not a less enthusiastic party support our team, especially now, while they are at home, and later we will do what we can by them. Our nine has worked faithfully this year, and certainly contains excellent material. We are by no means without good reason for expecting an issue favorable to our colors, only the nine should be warned against over-confidence. Victory lies with the coolest, and, however...
...seniors averaging better than the juniors. First prizes were awarded to Messrs. B. M. Firman and S. Hoar; second prizes to G. H. Eaton, O. Putnam and G. H. Page. The speaking closed at 9.30, the announcement of the award of prizes being brought in half an hour later...
...other, with more glasses than crockery on the table, and friends not less than the Graces nor more than the Muses in number. What a picture. Who does not remember such an one? But still more bewitching is the picture of this same room a few hours later when the smoke is curling about overhead; tongues are loosened, faces tinged with a rosy flush, the flowers and fruit strewn about the table, and all "ennuies de convention" are forgotten and wine and wit make gods of men. Still less did Butterfield know of these things in store...
Hilliard & Metcalf, Cambridge, published the Lyceum, as they did later the Register and the Collegian. The paper appeared semi-monthly and had as chief editor Edward Everett. In their "Address," the editors proclaim it to be the object of their paper to present the "many valuable hints suggested in a course of general study, which can only be published with propriety in the miscellaneous collections of a periodical pamphlet. . . . It is to be the publick common-place of its contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects...