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...announcement made by the faculty yesterday, that college exercises during the anniversary celebration would be suspended from Thursday evening until Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock, has been greeted with general satisfaction by the students. The constant and hard worker will sigh a mighty sigh of relief when his eyes light on these lines, and the constitutional fainant will smile with lurid joy at finding the period of his loafing so largely extended. He will even tell you that the vacation ought to last until Wednesday morning at nine o'clock. However, it is to be hoped that the proverbial...
...carefully compiled statistics of the English University crews, not only are the men not injured, but actually improved in health, if we may judge from the fact that their years are increased. But length of days is not everything. Ruined health from a diseased heart may make a man sigh for death. Here, again, the figures are most favorable, for a smaller percentage of these men died from heart disease than is found among average...
...purposes for which this spring of green leaves could be designed, we searched diligently for directions, and found them concisely stated in two paragraphs headed. "He has a right to kiss her," and "The custom of kissing still exists." When the full meaning dawned upon us a heartfelt sigh of relief ascended to Heaven. For years, in common with other members of the journalistic profession, the editors of the CRIMSON have been troubled with extreme bashfulness! Here at last is a remedy, by simply deceiving some fair one into standing beneath this emblem of osculation, "he has a right...
...amount of thought which is bestowed upon the student by his anxious admirers of every class. We hear at times the religious wail soon drowned in the cry of horror arising at the news of a "Harvard rush." And as a fitting accompaniment, we hear the low sigh of the maiden aunt at "those horrid Harvard punches." But when revolving time brings us face to face with questions of Harvard finance, the country is inundated with a mass of information concerning the Harvard pocket-book which is more stupendous than truthful. If we spend much, we are thought occasionally...
...finally we discover it. Right before us stretching over a hundred yards of ground, the walls of the Jefferson Laboratory raise their giant and rigid outlines; their harsh effect lessened by no attempt at any concealment of their hideous nudity. As we rise with a sigh because the field cannot be entirely beautiful after all, we breathe a wish that our landscape gardner would only train a little ivy up the north end of that building, or plant a few young elms in front of it, that its Puritan severity may be a little softened for future generations...