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This glorious plan so excited me that, forgetting my situation, I rushed from my place of concealment, and burst out into loud hurrahs and cheers. The speaker stopped, everybody started, and cries of "Treason!" and "Put him out!" were heard all over the room. I was seized by the collar, and, before I could collect my senses, a rope was fastened around my neck, and to my horror I found that my fears of suspension were about to be realized. For the Professors fastened the rope round a pulley and began to raise me into the air. As soon...
...last regular meeting of the C. T. Co., J. C. Holman, '76, was elected President, in place of R. W. Sawyer, resigned, and A. P. Browne, '74, Vice-President...
...dormitories, and thus many an unsuspecting youth would be inveigled into buying the wares of the merchants. The plan was no sooner formed than executed; the students were not entrapped, but alas for the tradesmen! Morning after morning, I fancy, as each of these unfortunate people opened his modest "place of business," he turned his inquiring gaze upon the passers-by, as if seeking for a youth whose appearance betokened him as coming from the classic shades of the Square. After looking from sunrise until the mists from the Back Bay had chilled him through, he at last understood that...
...create, lends an added meaning to the lines, and proves that the true essence of poetry is there which appeals to the feelings of all man-kind. A reader's ticket to the Athenaeum will introduce you to a very paradise of books, and the very cosiest of places to read them in. I am convinced that surroundings contribute much to the delights of reading; and to no place does that indescribable, but always appreciable, literary atmosphere so much attach as to the Athenaeum library. It has become impregnated with the romance of the books with which it is filled...
...climax by declaring, with evident pride, that the standard of admission at Cornell is as high as at Vale or Harvard. The Syracuse University Herald suggests, in reply, that the Times is suffering from the jaundice and blighted hopes, and earnestly advises a protracted visit at Dryden Springs Place (which is equal to Yale or Harvard). So far the Herald has the best of it, but a broadside may be expected from the next issue of the Times...