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...list; and, as far as we can judge without fuller information, the course seems to us a very complete and judicious one. That some change must soon be made in our own method is evident, and the example of Columbia may well be cited as a move in the right direction. A course covering six years will certainly be an inducement to those interested in the study of modern languages; and if Harvard takes no forward step in the matter, it is easy to see what the relative position of the two colleges will be, in this one branch...
...truth is," said I, "I never allow him to let himself out; I always keep him held right in; but this morning I let him off of a walk for a little while, and he made a mile in two-fifty...
...country. I was, therefore, not a little taken aback when the individual with the pile of papers held out my passport to me and calmly told me that I could never enter the University on that passport; there was a mistake in it which must be set right again before they could be sure that I was an American citizen. Not being very fluent with my German just then I did not dispute the matter with him, but took the passport and departed, feeling decidedly "sat upon." I hurried to the American legation, had the mistake rectified, and was back...
...Never mind about that," quoth the Ibex. "I know what the college owes. It's $35,000; but the janitor of Mathoose says he'll make that all right...
...replied the Lamprey, picking up the papers that had fallen from his sleeve to the floor. "The Rev. Dr. Bonfire Burnham was just in to see me, and he told me that he feared my piety was growing lukewarm. I had lost the pristine unction. He pointed his eye right at me and said, 'Lamprey, with grief I have noticed in the last two issues of your little publication that your front cover, hitherto your redeeming feature, Lamprey, has displayed in its printed matter a latitude most unprecedented, and an obliquity never before attempted by decorous journalism...