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...purpose. Despairing of understanding anything in their paper, I resolved that the examiners should understand nothing in my book. So, being acquainted with Choctaw (a language which closely resembles, yet is totally different from Greek), I wrote in this tongue stories of Indian mythology which I thought might be parallel to the Greek myths. When the examination was over, I walked out feeling that, whatever the examiners might say, they could not accuse me of being commonplace. Well, tempus fugit (notice my exact knowledge of Latin quantity). One day I received a notification commonly yclept a summons. Veni, vidi, vici...
...four-handed court, 4 1-2 feet within the side lines and parallel with them, are drawn the service side-lines, and the service side-lines extend only to these lines; and within these lines the service must be delivered...
...Parallel Bars O. Mueller...
March 20. 1. Heavy-weight sparring; 2. Middle-weight wrestling; 3. Feather-weight sparring; 4. Light-weight wrestling; 5. Fencing; 6. Vaulting, two hands; 7. Parallel bars...
...because he is not a citizen of Massachusetts. The reasons for the decision seem to be largely based upon the fact that a similar committee, six years ago, decided that ex-President Hill of Portland was not eligible to the Board. In the first place, the cases are not parallel. Dr. Hill forfeited his seat by removing from the State. It might well be a question, in such a case, whether an Overseer could hold his seat without being re-elected as a citizen of the State to which he had removed. But that is no reason...