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...with considerable enterprise, made up a supplementary sheet, detailing at more length the necessary information. Besides such help even, men often wish to consult the instructors on the different subjects. But the instructors are hard to get at, and the result is that many men choose their courses at random, or on the warped advice of personal friends. This year, Professor Laughlin, recognizing this long felt want, has hit upon a new and still better method of spreading abroad the required information. His plan saves trouble, both to the instructors in the department and to all students. He has determined...
...make no statements at random," it says; "proofs are in our possession. Yale wins her games by systematic preconcerted evasions of the rules of play. Yaleism is this-an underhanded and constant evasion of the rules. This, kept up for an hour and a half, told on the matches with Harvard and Princeton, and won for our New Haven brothers the championship. We cannot offer them our sincere congratulations for such victories. We do not wish to charge Yale falsely, and are ready to hear what she has to say, but she must show stronger proofs than...
...across the dusty road before me. Every object I saw took on an unnatural glare. My head was hot and heavy, my veins all afire; but I kept on. Even with him beside me, I kept on. He talked cheerily, and I answered in monosyllables at first, then at random, wildly; I saw him looking at me with an expression of curious concern; and I saw a spot of red, like blood, in his left cheek. That is the reason, the only reason...
Emerson, it is said, keeps a huge note-book by him night and day, in which to record every brilliant thought, and whenever he has filled a dozen pages in this way he selects a title at random, and publishes them as a new essay. Smith was following, in a measure, this plan. Every incident in the barn-yard, every narrow escape from a mowing-machine, was booked for future use. Such is the devotion to art which every literary man feels...
...opened the door, and in I went, cane raised. The room was dark; I gave at random all the cuts of the sabre exercise, when, as the door opened wider, I saw that the room was empty, but the window open. I pointed...