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...homely, and smokes cigarettes, which you know is not at all comme il faut, and I don't see how you ever came to make a Yale graduate a proctor. His room, of course, is right above mine, and the worst of it is that he is trying to learn the new waltz. You giddy devotees of Terpsichore of course know what that is, and so you'll pardon me if I don't go into details. Anyway, he is just learning it, and he does raise the most tremendous racket - "racket," by the way, is not slang...
...learn that Oscar Wilde has been getting off "the Greek statue in your gymnasium" grind away out West at the University of Nebraska...
...first place, he had all the pleasures of the table to enjoy in years to come. This may seem to you a small matter, but when you think what a field of hope and joy, desperation and sadness lies open to the man who has yet to learn that Burgundy should not be shaken before it is opened, that Rocquefort should be eaten with warmed crackers, that fish should be eaten with cold butter, and truly, I would willingly mortgage the governor's life insurance policy to experience again for the first time the varied soothing and tingling delights...
...recent successes in base-ball. "We don't want Yale to be disapointed, but we think it rather reckless of her to place her 'fondest hopes' in the base-ball arena," comments the Princetonian. "Both Harvard and Princeton have shown themselves strong at the bat. The Dartmouth nine, we learn, is batting poorly, and Amherst has done nothing at all as yet, and does not seem over-confident. Brown boasts of having discovered another 'phenomena,' and quite raves over her 'left-handed battery.' Her nine plays in the first three of the championship games, meeting Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale, between...
...obtained than from the fabulous accounts of the Spaniards. Yucatan was the centre of a civilization extending north to the Pueblos, and south to the Peruvians. The descendants of this ancient people have so strongly impressed themselves upon the Spaniards as to compel the latter people to learn the Maya language. He pointed out the two theories as to the use of the buildings whose ruins we find upon the terraces; 1st, that they were communal houses like those of the ancient Pueblos; 2d, that they were the official houses of a migratory people. The climate of Yucatan is such...