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...with tears, our brain still teeming with - no! we will not believe them the creatures of imagination. Dear Tom! sweet Ellen! brave, great-hearted John Breese! life seems nobler from contact with you - we cannot write soberly of it. Here in this sanctum of sobriety, here in strait-faced, solemn 'Book Notices' we propose three rousing cheers for Tom Hammersmith! Three cheers more for Mark Sibley Severance, chronicler! Yes, and three more for 'Fair Harvard!' 'May they live long and prosper!'" Well done, Rip Van Winkle...
...College Words and Customs we extract the following account of a class day in 1793 : "The order of the day was this : At ten the class walked in procession to the president's house and escorted him, the professors and tutors to the chapel, preceded by the band playing solemn music. The president began with a short prayer. He then read a chapter in the Bible; after this he prayed again; Cutler then delivered his poem. Then the singing club, accompanied by the band, performed Williams' Friendship. This was succeeded by a valedictory Latin oration by Jackson. We then formed...
...Advertiser, the solemn old Advertiser, is guilty of the following feeble little joke : "There is a 'Champaign University' in this country. But it is not the one you mean on the banks of the Charles, but in Illinois." Poor Advertiser...
After the freshman game at Yale the solemn and impressive exercises of "taking the fence" by '85 was witnessed by the Harvard visitors. The anthems sung on the occasion were even more mournful than those of previous years...
...delusive gifts of brilliancy and vivacity. We took occasion some days ago to reason with the Review upon the subject of its delusion. We only hope our words have carried conviction into the soul of our erring brother. But now in some unaccountable manner we have stirred up the solemn indignation of the Chronicle, and consequently we find ourselves confronted with a most severe and formidable lecture from our Ann Arbor friends upon the sins of sectional prejudice and local conceit. That same native vigor and rude energy of style which we found so remarkable in the case...