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This was enough. After having provided an armament for the contemplated slaughter of game, and ammunition enough to storm a fort, our party arrives, on a superb moonlit evening, at the neat and homelike Samoset. Mine host is something of a character, being a combination of the old sea-captain and English country gentleman. After a substantial supper and a bottle of Scotch ale he is ever a philosopher, with the tenets of Epicurus, and desires nothing better than a new lease of life, with permission to live on the Gurnet, with his dog and gun, and observe the revolution...
...wonderful diligence lately shown by the Juniors in studying the Old Testament is doubtless traceable to the recent abatement of Sunday morning prayers...
MANY Juniors went last Sunday evening to hear Rev. Mr. McKenzie preach on the Blessing of the Old Testament, - a very interesting theme for this class. Finding the church closed, they listened to some pithy missionary statistics, but learned little of practical use; the only resource was the Volume itself, which, we believe, was thoughtfully placed on the shelf at the Library...
...that those have who are willing to write in Freshman year is very marked, and the class of Seventy-eight have shown their appreciation of it. A word in regard to the matter of contributions. It should be such as is of real interest to both writer and reader; old "compositions" and essays on "Habit," "Principle," and what not, - of great truth, no doubt, but of no special interest nor appropriateness to the time, - are better kept for the author's own private perusal. Perhaps we could better omit any specific enumeration of subjects to be avoided...
...Caesar's grand old palace, looking down...