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...glad to learn that Brown intends making a needed improvement in her base-ball field by leveling the hill in right field...
...send good oarsmen to Harvard, and a recent article in the Exonian suggests a system which deserves notice. The writer says: "The thing for our boating men to do, if they wish to have the Harvard Boat Club co-operate with them, is to learn the Harvard stroke. The question naturally arises, How are we to learn this stroke? It is barely possible, that by paying his expenses, we might prevail upon some member of the 'Varsity Boat Club, (one who has either some love for P. E. A., or some kindly interest in its students) to come up here...
...more or less partisan comment on the proceedings than in any of the college papers. Indeed, it has been principally the outside press which, with perverted enterprise, has perpetually dragged the matter into publicity, both in and out of season. The public, of course, has a decided interest in learning the final outcome of the discussion, but they have no claim to learn more than this. The impertinent comments on the matter that have appeared from time to time in the daily press have derived a manifest absurdity from their impertinence. It is a matter of congratulation that...
...giving us a holiday, at the same time hinting that he expects to take a little vacation himself, and that a slight donation will not be amiss. Once in a while we come in to breakfast and find his face wreathed in smiles, the cause of which we soon learn, when he confidentially whispers in our ear that he is twenty-six years old today; he then draws off a few feet and watches the effect of his scheme. In short, if there is any limit to the waiter's avarice or his ingenuity in extorting fees...
...death has several times been the result. It was an occurrence of this kind that caused the atelier of Paul Delaroche to be closed when that master went to Italy, taking his pupil Gerome with him. The rising Russian painter, Basile Vereschagin, on entering the studio of Picot to learn the rudiments of his art, refused to be made the victim of the rough treatment to which it was proposed to subject him. This consisted in attaching the new-comer's head downwards to a ladder, and then blowing tobacco smoke up his nose - an invention truly worthy...