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...considerable number of '82 class photographs are to be found in the album at Pach's studio...
...college matters; and therefore, although the need of action on our part is universally admitted, it behooves us to look carefully in the first place to our beginnings; then not to attempt too much at once; and above all, to enlist the interest and active cooperation of the greatest number possible before taking any decisive step. Better, as the Crimson hints, bend every effort to securing one article, such as coal, at fair prices, than make a desperate endeavor to effect a reform of the whole market, and then find it impossible to manage our elephant with success...
...before the war taught anti-slavery doctrines, and now contains many colored students, the members of a literary society composed of white students recently dared to reject a colored candidate for admission. Thereupon, the irate faculty commanded them to receive him. They refused, and consequently twenty-three of their number were expelled, taking off with them the society library. Now fifty others have left college, and consequently "there's trubble in de church...
Henry James, who is now one of the lions of Washington society, has a number of stories told at his expense. Here is the latest: He asked a clever young lady if there was not a river near Washington called the Potomac. "Oh, yes," said she, "and I should think you would know all about it, because there is a place on it called Mount Vernon, where a man named Washington lived. You are sure to have heard of him, you know, because his father was an Englishman...
There appeared in a recent number of the Bicycling World an article in which it was claimed that the bicycle was a practical road machine for all seasons of the year. The writer gave his experience in winter riding, an asserted that he found very little difficulty in making fair time on the snow. Winter riding on a bicycle may be enjoyable to some, but we must confess a weakness for a sleigh. Numb fingers, slippery going, and frequent and unavoidable falls and dismounts do not seem to us the most enjoyable features of bicycling. Winter, in our opinion...