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At the end of the meeting the Juniors transacted some business relating to their own crew. Mr. Harding, the treasurer, offered his resignation, which was unwillingly accepted. It was explained that some two hundred and twenty-five dollars must be soon raised, and measures taken to obtain the sum.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/2/1873 | See Source »

THE election of editors for the Cornell Era has taken place at Cornell. They are chosen by a class vote at the end of the Sophomore year. The opinion has been here expressed that the papers of our own University would be likely to obtain better editors by a similar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/2/1873 | See Source »

The influence exerted upon society by the silent man is irresistible; his very silence is a proof of wisdom. But let him break through his reserve, and his doom is sealed; henceforth he has lost his dignified-exaltation, and become one of the mobile vulgus. There is deeply implanted in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DIGNITY OF SILENCE. | 6/2/1873 | See Source »

Hatim Tai, the Oriental exemplar of sympathy and self-sacrifice, one day happened upon a wolf pursuing a doe, and, unwilling to allow the wolf to go hungry, though wishing to save his prey from his jaws, Hatim cut a slice from his own thigh to satisfy the appetite of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLEASURES OF SLEEP. | 6/2/1873 | See Source »

Even if it were productive of the best health and the most devotional feeling to have to get up early and hear the prayers of another, or watch them from beyond hearing distance, those who compel us to do such things cannot imagine how great an incentive to resignation it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLEASURES OF SLEEP. | 6/2/1873 | See Source »