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...which close the American schoolboy's career, but his dissipations are of a very different sort. During the last two years of his gymnasium course, he finds it necessary to have miniature "commerce" or drinking bouts. The boy who downs the greatest number of glasses of beer becomes the pet of the class much in the same way that in America the best foot-ball player becomes the hero of his schoolmates...
Miss Batchelder, the loyal actress who persisted in wearing the Harvard college colors above those of Columbia, although students of the latter institution had control of the theatre, has an extensive acquaintance with the Harvard boys and they regard her as a sort of pet...
...boat, where parallel bars, etc., have been erected. The men exercise there during the evening, often having interesting sparring and wrestling matches for their amusement. As we bade our courteous guide farewell on the upper deck, we noticed the purser with a green parrot - the ship's pet - seated on his wrist and swearing volubly, - the last words we heard upon the "Wabash." We descended into the scow, which was waiting, the windlass turned, and we were once more on dry shore and heading towards Cambridge...
...grammar," "very bad taste," "atrocious English," utter lack of sense and want of connection." Remarks: "It is hard to conceive of a mind capable of producing such a villainous piece of work. The man that wrote it was evidently drunk." Mr. Crewman who reads this delicate censure upon his pet ideas, starts off with blood in his eyes and an Indian club to interview Freshworthy, while Freshworthy with his double-barreled shot-gun is looking up another man. Three-fourths of the section are seeking gore, and the instructor has fled for parts unknown. It is feared that...
...hung ever since, a witness to the comings and goings, and the joys and sorrows of student life. Mr. John Cahill, the present janitor, has rung the bell four times a day for the last 30 years, and the old man deeply regrets this accident to his pet. On the front of the bell is the following inscription in raised letters: "Guten I, Gotheborg. At Arwid Book. Anno 1742." It has been ascertained that Guten is the name of a foundry that was in Gutenburg, Sweden, many years ago, and that "Arwid Book" was the owner of the foundry...