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...come. The long-expected, the widely advertised, the unparalleled circus has come, and we have seen it. There were those who sneered at the superlative adjectives on the large red and blue posters; there were others who refused to believe that any show could equal Barnum's; but they all now agree that the posters, far from exaggerating, did not half express the wealth of this circus, and that it beat Barnum...
Behind the quarter of a mile of these interesting sights came the pet of the whole show, - the baby elephant. It was named "Prayers," and was regarded as the spoilt child of the University. Fear-of-Public-Opinion bolstered its tottering steps on one side; rigid penalties - including suspension - performed this graceful office on the other. A choir - of one feeble-voiced, hired youth - walked in front, enticing it on by singing melancholy hymns. Altogether, it was a forlorn-looking creature...
...yours; but you, as well as others, are mad, mad as any one in a lunatic Asylum. Why? Well, of course, different people show their insanity in different ways. If you should ask me how you show yours, I might tell you that you have an abnormal leaning - towards certain mad tendencies. You crook out your elbows; you part your hair in the middle; you brush it down flat upon your temples (such foolishness as school-girls only used to be capable of); you never by any chance confess an interest in anything except tennis and Germans. Indifference, I believe...
...show her fondness for "bright Tutor Pore...
...debates which have thus far taken place in the Harvard Union show that the University can support an organization of that kind. But that the interest in the society may be kept at the present level, other inducements than debate pure and simple must be offered. Besides the room for debate, which it is hoped Sever Hall will furnish next year, there is need of a social reading-room, to be kept open in the evening, when one has time to look over the newspapers or reviews. The reading-room now in the hands of the undergraduates has never been...