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...part the blest and lost...
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...striking proof of the great principle underlying our remarks, can be found in the results of a semi-annual examination, the books for which were recently returned. After patient consideration we have surmised that part of the books were marked fairly. We also have ground for supposing that when the instructor was fatigued he counted the number of books, put an equal amount of numbers in a hat, and then drew them. Somehow or other only three denominations were used, consequently a large proportion of the books had either 73, 64 or 46 per cent. That from six to twelve...
...Nine was composed for the most part of new men, or of those who had appeared for the first time the previous year. Hooper pitched, but his delivery had ceased to be effective; Thatcher caught; Kent, the captain, played first base; F. W. Thayer, '78, second; Leeds, short stop; Tyng, third; with Tower, Ernst, and Latham in the field. Sixteen games were played, of which only seven were won. Yale won the series in two consecutive games of 9 to 4, and 11 to 4, respectively. Three games with the Bostons proved more disastrous than usual. The Princeton...
Passing by the cages of foreign birds, French, Italian, German, and Chinese, - for the most part mocking-birds, - we next see the procession of mediaeval knights, mounted on hobby-horses. Each rider recited his particular speech over and over again, and paid no attention to what any one else said. An aged knight, tastefully dressed in the garb of a scholastic philosopher, led the van. By a happy arrangement of the managers, a corps of Freshmen on ponies appropriately followed at a short interval...