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...provided. Players are requested to be very careful in this matter, as otherwise it would be easy to defraud the association. A player can transfer from one court to a better one by paying the necessary increased amount, but in no case shall a player be stopped after any length of play on a court. The grass courts will be opened by the annual spring tournament of the college, from which in the singles all players who have previously won a college or inter-collegiate single tournament are barred, thus giving a great chance...
...senate is purely a student body, with the exception of the president, and numbers ten; of these, one represents the freshman class, two the sophomore, three the junior, and four the senior. The senators are elected for a term comprising two college terms; a length of duration in office which prevents the membership of the body from being entirely changed at any time, and, by the frequent rotation in office, renders it more nearly a representative of college sentiment. The president of the college sentiment. The president of the college is the president of the senate. The right of absolute...
Boswell at length married an Irish lady, for the sole reason, so far as I can discover, that she was willing to marry him; this was so unusual a chance that he appears to have embraced it eagerly. His marriage, however, did not radically change him, and we are not surprised to read, a year after, in a brief letter written on a journey, that: "There is a Miss Silverton in the fly with me, an amiable creature who has been in France. I can unite little fondnessess with conjugal love." Boswell must have been a unique sort of travelling...
...remember once reading, during the evening, an essay of several pages length, and, on going to bed, repeating it word for word, from beginning to end. De Quincey immortalized himself by his wonderful visions. There is that remarkable work of Cicero's on the vision of Scipio, a work that I have often thought must have suggested to Richter the idea embodied in his well-known Dream of The Universe. Bunyan is continually saying, "Now I saw in my dream." And thus a thousand and one instances might be cited, in which, merely as a flight of the imagination...
...folly. But the most striking feature of these letters, I think, lies in the accounts of his love-affairs. And since these accounts seem to me to be not only diverting, but also peculiarly characteristic of the man, I have purposed to dwell on them at some length...