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...last toast, "Our Future," was very happily responded to by Mr. C. F. Thwing. Arguing from the great names which our roll contains already he predicted a glowing future, and his reply was one of the best of the evening. After the regular toasts many informal ones were proposed and drunk, among which were the Advocate, Magenta, C. T. Co., etc. The "Odes," written by Mr. C. A. Dickinson and Mr. R. W. Curtis, were finely rendered by the chorus...
More suggestive than any suggestion is the following statement, made without comment: "It has been a common opinion that prayers were not only right and helpful in themselves " (this part of the opinion, we think, has been generally abandoned), "but also necessary to college discipline, partly as a morning roll-call, and partly as a means of enforcing continuous residence. It was, therefore, interesting to observe that the omission of morning prayers for nearly five months, at the time of year when the days are shortest and coldest, had no ill effects whatever on college order or discipline. There...
...visitors enter, the whole vast assembly of boys rise, and, led by organ and choristers, make the arches ring with anthems, preserved in the school from the time of the old monks. But much of our interest in the school lies in the illustrious names on its roll (names such as Bishop Middleton and Bishop Stillingfleet, Camden, Markland, and Richardson; the first of England's novelists) and in stories of Charles Lamb and Coleridge, "the inspired charity-boy," pacing the cloisters together, or Leigh Hunt withstanding some "little tyrant," in spite of blows and cuffs so painful to his sensitive...
...ball through the yard. From the time he comes out of Weld to the moment he passes from the gate on his way to Jarvis, the eye of some proctor is upon him. If any dare to transfer the ball from one hand to another, even if they roll it about in one hand, one acute interpreter of the college laws asserts that they are playing ball. Of course such a strict interpretation, and such a certainty of punishment in case of disobedience, awes every would-be offender. Neither a bat nor ball is seen inside of the yard...
...dying for a smoke, and as I have n't any tobacco of my own, I think I'll close and go over to my Freshman's to roll a cigarette...