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...lying all dressed upon the sofa, when I regained consciousness. Slowly the veil that clouded my memory lifted, and I could look back at the horror and darkness of the night, which had so suddenly come to an end. But I was long in comprehending what had passed. It seemed like being in another world, with the newness of awakened life and the radiance of a fresh spring day. I rose slowly and tried to think what had happened. Then, like a lightning-flash, the truth was revealed to me. Who had fired that revolver, and why did it make...
What she said I do not remember. Perhaps this whole dialogue does not seem worth remembering. I only know that when I came to talk of the separation about to come, I thought that she grew very sober; I thought I almost saw tears in her eyes. Never mind what I saw. I drew her trembling form closer to mine; and then I knew that we two must not part for ever...
...editorial article on the Busar in the last number of the Crimson seems to have been the cause of no little disturbance among our cotemporaries. But those who complained of it as being too harsh could hardly, we think, have fully realized the facts of the case. A re-statement of certain of these facts may not be out of place. The Board of Directors of the Memorial Hall Dining Association is a body elected by the members of the Association, that is, by the students who board at Memorial. This Board of Directors, besides having in its charge...
These are the worst specimens of student poetry, and I wonder why the editors of the college papers ever let them get into their columns. If such as these appear in print, what stuff must the editorial waste-baskets contain! Undergraduate poets seem to have a poor command of language, and this gives rise to repetitions, and gives an air of awkwardness and carelessness to many of their compositions; we often find words put in merely for rhymes or to fill out the stanza, and a general lack of careful revision is painfully evident. I have noticed that the last...
...instruction which would be imparted by it to the students, the easier the access to the performance, the better; and just in so far as the access is made more difficult, just in so far does the performance miss a good part of its purpose. Therefore it must seem to all unfortunate that the gentlemen having the undertaking in charge have not been able, because of financial necessity, to sell the tickets at such a price as would enable all members of the University to see the play. For it is a fact that a good third...