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Among the tender memories connected with college life, the first freshman class meeting has long held the palm. Within recent years, however, these meeting have been so quiet and orderly that regrets have been expressed at the lack of excitement for the spectators who kindly attend. Determined to rectify this this sad state of things, '88, the so-called freshman class, went to work last evening with a will which evening with a will which even the sanctity of old Boylston could not withstand Remembering the old saying, "A thing well begun is half done," the freshmen colleged like...
...year of session at Cambridge, England is divided into three terms; one from October the 10th until December the 16th, another from January the 16th to the Friday before Palm Sunday, and the third, or Easter term begins the Wednesday after Easter and ends with Commencement day; the first of July...
...with a chapel. The chapel has since been replaced by a larger and finer edifice, and lately the fine Vaughan library and a school hospital have been built. Buron was a graduate of this school; also Peel, Canning, Sheridan, and many other men of note, although Eton bears the palm for educating remarkable...
...utter one of the common forms of exorcism. Instantly the myriad houris assumed the forms of irritated demons; the smoke from the uncounted narghiles burned thick and black; the cries of the frustrated ginns who were no better than they should be rang wildly in our ears; the palm tree shook beneath a mighty wind; the distant summits of the minarets rocked and wavered, and, with a tremendous crash, the paradise of the faithful disappeared.[A. Lang, in the Fornightly Review...
...left. The course of the ball then naturally inclines that way ; the more rapid the revolution, of course, the greater the curve. To direct the ball the other way the axis would have to be kept upright and the revolution reversed which could be done by holding the palm of the hand downward...