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...second place in that year's race...
...HAVE always been of a mathematical turn of mind, and lately I have developed into an inventive genius. In the first place, I invented questions that floored the instructor in Mathematics o; then I got up a table which, being written on one inch of cuff, will solve all problems of the differential calculus; and, finally, I invented a mathematical motor. Without telling the secret of this (which of course I intend to keep to myself) I can tell that, impelled by this motor, one can sail through boundless realms of space with the speed of thought...
Glad to have been deceived in my condition, and learning that I was a stranger, he offered to show me the city. I asked where I was, and the man replied that the place was Infinity. This answer prepared me for the wonders...
...rose with the exigency, buttoned my coat over the gaping rents, felt of my abused proboscis, and was pleased to find that useful member, though perceptibly worn, still firm in its place. With the support of the railing I remounted, and slowly and painfully began the circuit of the hall. Round and round I went, oft diving into the railing, every few minutes affectionately embracing a post or two, dismounting at the most unexpected moments, and in the most unprecedented manner, and alighting on every conceivable part of my body, except on my feet; occasionally hurled with prodigious velocity into...
...Crimson seems to have been the cause of no little disturbance among our cotemporaries. But those who complained of it as being too harsh could hardly, we think, have fully realized the facts of the case. A re-statement of certain of these facts may not be out of place. The Board of Directors of the Memorial Hall Dining Association is a body elected by the members of the Association, that is, by the students who board at Memorial. This Board of Directors, besides having in its charge the arrangement of various minor matters pertaining to the carrying...