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...omitting pp. 185 - 186, 216 - 218, 227 - 237). In French a fair knowledge of Grammar and some ability to translate easy French. In Junior Rhetoric the text-book is Whately from the 56th to 388th page, omitting the chapters on Presumptions, and the Lectures on the Professions. A short Outline to be had at Sever's contains all the required amount...
...College Argus raises the old cry of "Too much Work," which is echoed just now by every College in the country. A youth in this paper must have been doing a vast amount of "general reading" the last winter, for in a short account of a visit to the Packer Institute he has introduced quotations from Virgil, Moore, Mother Goose, Tennyson, Milton, Shakespeare, and St. Paul...
...Freshmen, particularly, have realized this week the importance of a second crew. They have lost, in their short boating-experience, six of their best men from one cause and another, and now, a fortnight before the race comes off, in order to put in an appearance at all, they are driven to the second crew. Two of the best men have been taken from it and put on the first crew, which, in spite of a new stroke, and a prospect by no means enlivening, is doing tolerably well...
...words - peli, fish, and can, can - signifying fish-can. By some commentators thought to mean that he can manage fish; but by others supposed to refer to the size of his enormous bill, on vich he carries home his fish to his family, ven, in case of their running short, he nobly begins a pecking of hisself onto the breast, and a sayin', in his vay, "I dies for those I loves," - a be-autiful motto, my little dears, for your copy-books and your antecedent lives. The unusual heft of his bill makes him appear lopsided; but a kind...
...Contributors" was responded to by a short speech from Mr. Elwood, and was followed by a toast to the "'Varsity," which was represented by a letter from the Captain, Mr. Goodwin, who gave as excuse for absence the daily row that alone can win us success next summer...