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...Amherst, students who attend nine tenths of the recitations need not try the examinations...
...harsh sound broke in on my reveries; in fact there was no need of any, because I was all broke up already. The sonorous snore of my next-door neighbor came to me as soothingly as the sound of the waves on the beach. As I lay communing with my inner consciousness there was a knock at the door. Without waiting for any summons in walked a form which I had seen before. As he came nearer I saw it was an old acquaintance, familiarly known at college as Lampy. Somewhat surprised at the unexpected apparition, I hesitated a moment...
...cries, - "At them, Freshies!" "Down with them, Sophs!" the Seniors urging on the Sophomores, and the Juniors the Freshmen. Soon the football was forgotten, and the game was wont to take the appearance of the traditional bloody rush. Usually the fight became so fierce that there was need of a band of proctors to clear the field. Often six or seven of the Sophs ruminated over this night's struggle for six months in some retired spot in Maine or New Hampshire. In 1860 the Faculty, feeling the contests had grown too savage in late years, decided to prohibit...
...woman days when Adam could go fishing all the morning, and play tennis all the afternoon, in the delightful consciousness that as yet there was no Eve shrieking out the kitchen window that if he wanted any dinner he'd better come home and start the fire, and he need n't use any kerosene either...
...PIECE of property on Summer Street, Boston, assessed at $339,000, and considered by the real-estate brokers to be worth not more than $400,000, was recently purchased by President Eliot for the sum of $475.000. And yet the College is in "pressing need" of more money...