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...which the Terphsichoreans glided across the floor below." The scene, we are told, "was one from fairy land," with "generous bowls of lemonade" scattered around, (could the ordinary mortal imagine such a fitting drink for fairies as lemonade?) while above this domain of fays hung the Yale crew's shell, which "looked down upon the people below, recalling the time when it had looked upon eelgrass and had felt sadder." Who could have thought of such a brilliant compliment to the young ladies of New Haven? Who would have thought they reminded one of "eel-grass...
...have the college students for customers, I see?" said a stranger in Princeton to the restaurateur, who had just placed before him half a dozen oysters on the half shell. "Very thoughtful of you to keep literature for them to read while waiting for their orders to be filled...
...winter meeting of the Maine Historical Society, which is to be held December 23, Professor F. W. Putnam of the Peabody Museum is to present a paper on the Damariscotta shell heaps, which have attracted the notice of antiquarians...
American Archaeology. "An account of ancient shell-heaps on the coast of Maine, with an exhibition of the specimens collected." Prof. Putnam, Peabody Museum, 3 P. M. Admission by ticket...
...pounds when out of training, and will train down a good deal below that figure. In the distant future of education in this country looms up the problem of how closely a coxswain can approach' the line which separates entity from nothingness, and still be able to steer a shell between two rows of flags...