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...pursuit, all using the same instruments and holding before them the one great aim of mental improvement, we see at once from analogy that it would be perfectly natural for a set of cant phrases to come into use, and to occupy a unique position. And this is the origin of our slang. But as to its use. It is possible that our slang words express, it is true not in pure Saxon, a class of ideas not to be expressed in ordinary language. In other words we have slowly acquired a dialect, comparable to that of Romany, which...
President McCosh, of Princeton, has a curious habit, when disturbed in any way, of chewing the knuckle of his thumb. On one occasion when he had been lecturing on the relations of good and evil of the world, he was asked by some inquisitive divinity student to explain the origin of evil. Replied the president, with a strong Doric accent: - "Well, ye have asked me a vera deeficult question. All the feelosophers of antiquity have tried their hand at it. Sookrates tried it and failed; Plato did no better. Descarites, Spinoza and Leibnitz were obliged to confess...
...university of Cincinnati met with a loss of $30,000 by fire Nov. 7. The origin of the fire is supposed to be spontaneous combustion in the chemical laboratory...
Columbia College traces its origin to a law entitled as follows: "An act for raising the sum of two thousand, two hundred and fifty pounds, by a public lottery for this colony, for the encouragement of learning, and for the founding of a college within the same...
...make the inquiry of a correspondent the excuse for presenting a brief history of the origin of the principal Greek letter societies, whose numbers have so increased and multiplied as to render a complete enumeration impossible. The list appended, therefore, embraces only the ten oldest and most influential societies which draw their membership principally to the Eastern States. The first of the Greek letter organizations, the venerable Phi Beta Kappa, was established at William and May, Dec. 5, 1776. There is a tradition that Thomas Jefferson was one of its founders. The original chapter has long been defunct...