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...glasses before the eyes, so that the only place where they are cut is on the face. The students are very proud of these cuts, and in case they see that a scar will not be very noticeable, it is often a fact that they tear it open and pour wine into it. After a student has fought a certain fixed number of duels (some ten or twelve), he receives a band of ribbon, which he wears across his breast, under his coat; upon receipt of his first band he is free from all fighting, unless he desires...
...pathetic or humerous purport, would come out in quite a human way. The most striking general failing was a tendency to make too many pauses in a sentence, as if the young speakers felt the need of a certain start before making an emphasis, on the reculer pour mieux sauter principle. The lack of by-play was striking, albeit natural, and almost all the participants fell into the error, common to all American -born amateurs, of looking preternaturally solemn-as if the destinies of the stellar system weighed upon their shoulder-when they had nothing to say. Yet there...
...Notices in the CRIMSON reaches stupendous proportions about the time of the examination period, as we have seen in the issues of the past week or so. What mines of wealth, in the form of many bits and shekels, must just roll into the CRIMSON'S treasury ! Tutors' notices pour in day after day, until it would seem that there was not a course in college that was not represented. What does it all signify? Does it really pay the tutors to advertise? Were I interested in the CRIMSON, I should certainly say that it paid-paid the CRIMSON. Still...
...discussion, and by betting at long odds. A proposal was made by some maidenly member of the Vassar Central Republican Campaign Committee that, on the day before the election, polls should be opened, and a special election of their own should be held; a small election, one petite election pour un sou as it were, but still one that would give the college an opportunity to show the great outside world just where it stood on the momentous question...
...company. They wear a pretty uniform, with feathers in their hats and flowing sashes of pink ribbon. They have provided themselves with neatly japanned water pots instead of a fire engine, and they have resolved when a fire breaks out to form a circle round about it, and to pour water on it from their watering pots while singing that beautiful song, "Water, bright water, for me, but gin for the masculine fire ladies:" They have signed a pledge never to go up a step ladder in public, no matter how confident any one of their number...