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...revolt among the students at a Paris school called the Lycee Louis le Grand will occupy a conspicuous place in the history of academic insurrections. It originated in the displeasure of the boys at the expulsion of one of their number, and before it was finally quelled a detachment of forty policemen, one of whom was seriously wounded, had to break open the dormitories behind whose barricaded doors the rebels had intrenched themselves. The pupils sent preposterous terms of surrender to their principal, who promptly declined the same, and thereupon expelled and caused to be ejected no fewer than...
...then put at 9 ft. 9 in., a quarter of an inch above the record; at this height Soren baulked at the first attempt, but his pole knocked off the bar. Considerable laughter was caused by the frantic efforts of the stewards to put the bar in place. On the third try the bar was cleared, but in falling to the ground Soren knocked the bar off. Soren finally gave up the attempt to beat the record...
There are indications that a radical change in the cabinet will soon take place...
...next Pierian and Glee Club coffee party takes place next Monday evening...
...road, got stuck in the mire. Her agonizing and despairing howls for help soon brought to her side the ever-present guardian of the fair sex. He clasped the luckless maiden in his manly arms, and supporting her weight on his manly bosom he carried her to a place of safety. The maiden was so overcome that she could only express her gratitude in tears. Rumor has it that there will soon be a closer bond of union between '85 and '86. [Cornell...