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...oldest man in '77 is 28 years, the youngest 19 years 2 months; average age, 22 years 6 months...
...hurry, and goes out quickly at first. Dow then hits a hard one to the pitcher, who touches it with his hand just enough to turn it into the short-stop's hands. Sawyer then completes the symmetry of the score card by going out as the twenty-seventh man...
These lectures, in after years, will always be one of the most agreeable features of our college course; and I feel sure that one is speaking for the entire class, in expressing deep regret at Mr. Everett's departure; alike for the loss of so agreeable a man, so profound a scholar, and so captivating a lectures...
...Betting may change luck. One youth of Princeton was pointed out as having a pot of $500 which he was willing to put up. A crowd of already disappointed strangers from Connecticut instantly and quickly drew around the individual. They represented a "putting up" capacity of $20,000. The man, seeing himself surrounded, fled. Pool-selling, recently abolished from New York, is soon to be driven from New Jersey - and that pernicious habit prevalent among the Jersey college men of making pools of ten cents, etc., will have to be stopped. Better back up your Nine." - Courant...
...year these literary policemen of ours have not conversed in tones which would disturb men outside of a radius of twenty feet, nor have they dropped the long window-stick more than once an hour on the average, nor have they even walked, two by two, past any given man more than a half-hour by the clock. This is in the highest degree praiseworthy, and we heartily congratulate them in their not altogether unsuccessful efforts at reform. But there is room for improvement; the ideal is not yet attained. Boots that squeak are a nuisance; doubly so when...