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...experience of St. Patrick's Day, that something green would be appropriate. Accordingly, I borrowed a green necktie from a Freshman friend next door, and set forth. Arriving at my destination, I succeeded in forcing a way through an immense crowd of the faithful with what clothing a reasonable man would expect to have left at such a time. Once in, I saw around me all sorts and conditions of people. There were men with collars and without neckties, and vice versa; women with beards, and women with elbows seemingly enlarged for the time; women with bandaged faces, and women...
...took the seat left vacant by a stout man who had been ejected for loudly disputing a friend who asserted that Rome was in Egypt. Here I was addressed by a person who began a voluntary monologue upon the evils of Catholicism. "Beginning," he said, "with Asia, and spreading through England, Italy, and its islands, the bigotry of the Catholic church came over to - " His geography failing him, I suggested Samoa. Unhappy venture! He began with Samoa, and opened a controversy upon the question of our country's buying it. As he turned his head, however, at the sound...
April 25, Prof. J. D. Whitney, "The Californian Pliocene Man." Illustrated...
...ALTHOUGH it is comparatively early in the term, Senior parts have been assigned to Pray, Salutatorian, and, with the exception of those who had parts last term, and a man who entered Bowdoin during Senior year, all the rest of the class." - Bowdoin Orient...
...must always happen that, with no consideration of the "softness" of courses, some will be chosen by a larger number of students than others, since it is more useful to most fellows to know French than Sanscrit, and Latin than music. Keeping a man from an agreeable and popular course will never drive him into a difficult and unpopular elective, but into another course that will not probably do him as much good as the one he would have chosen had he been at liberty...