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...than eight to pass, and in reducing the per cents of these to the lowest possible figure, becomes a matter for something more than ridicule. If the English instructors desire to see Rhetoric abolished as a required study, they are certainly going to work in a most far-sighted manner...
...regard to the manner in which a grant to the ground was obtained, it is hardly fair to accuse the Association of injustice or discourtesy; certainly nothing unjust or discourteous was intended...
...silent; and Sue, discouraged by having her pet subject received in so cool a manner, changed the conversation. "Have you seen the arrivals?" she asked...
...trees towards the upper end, where a circle was formed, and the coffin passed around for the friends to take a last look at the contents, - simply a football, with painted frill fastened to the head of the coffin." The elegist then, in the most excessively mock sanctimonious manner, amid sighs and sobs and groans and lamentations, the noise of which might have been heard for a mile, read by torch-light the address, which we will reprint, with Mr. King's permission, from the Harvard Register...
...DEARLY BELOVED, - We have met together upon this mournful occasion to perform the sad offices over one whose long and honored life was put to an end in a sudden and violent manner. Last year, at this very time, in this very place, our poor friend's round, jovial appearance (slightly swollen, perhaps), and the elasticity of his movements, gave promise of many years more to be added to a long life which even then eclipsed the oldest graduate's. When he rose exulting in the air, propelled by the toe of the valiant Ropes, looking like the war angel...