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...Let him observe the towns which voted...
...let me tell you of the low trick played on a dun by my chum last year. My chum had been deluded enough to subscribe to one of those periodical editions of Don Quixote, under the pleasing belief that it would be a fine thing to acquire Cervantes in so cheap a manner. "Just think!" he said. "Only fifty cents to be paid each week. And, really, every fellow should own Don Quixote." Affairs went on smoothly for two or three weeks. The payments were prompt, and each number of the periodical was eagerly devoured. But at about the time...
...myself, let me say that, although duns are sometimes a source of amusement, I intend henceforth to know them only in their relations to my friends, and that I shall only sport my oak on the night before my annual examination in Math...
...let us ask if it is fair to suppose that the undergraduate mind is naturally prone to lying. We see no reason for any such conclusion. Is it not rather absurd to assume that the year before he graduates his tendency is wholly in this direction and the year after exactly opposite? We do not believe that, if falsehood be so particularly the characteristic of the student's nature, the simple act of graduation will change him from a Baron Munchausen to a "Truthful James." Neither do we think that the possibility of mistakes belong exclusively to the undergraduate...