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...disgraceful to attend the theatre in a body, or indulge in such innocent amusements. It is an old, and I might say time-honored custom. Perhaps no class at present in the college, except '85, has omitted to "disgrace" itself in this way, nor any other class of recent years. Why '85 should attempt a reform in this particular I don't see, unless it is that they may show what dear, gentle, studious, good little boys they are. Even though it may be a sacrifice of some dignity to go to the theatre in a body, that does...
During the recent hour-examination in Sophomore Rhetoric the rooms were so cold that a man could see his breath before him. It was almost impossible to sit there, and still more difficult to write. Of course, the majority of men kept their overcoats on and some few tried to write with gloves. This last is somewhat difficult. The instructor himself complained of the cold. If it was too cold for a man who was at liberty to walk around, with his hands in his pockets, and who only staid for a few minutes, what must it have been...
Lyon Playfair, M. P., in a recent speech said that if the United States would adopt free trade it would become the greatest manufacturing country in the world...
...spite of the recent losses suffered by miscreants appropriating "shingles," several societies still tempt fortune by leaving their shingles out several nights in succession...
...Donovan Rossa says, concerning the recent explosion of an infernal machine on the steamer Oxenholine, that Irishmen in England and Ireland are determined to blow up anything English at every opportunity...