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This morning we publish the initial number of the HARVARD DAILY HERALD. It is our aim and purpose to make the paper straight-forward, just and independent, giving impartially praise or dispraise wherever due. We shall make bold to attack any measure that appears, after mature deliberation, to be harmful to the best interests of the students or university...
...ought n't! Eliza Hannam's child out in this storm!" He rose hastily to his feet, stumbling over two or three boxes in his excitement. "Here, grocer, just send up to her place the biggest box of Christmas goods you can find. Oh! I'll pay you straight enough. Here's a ten-dollar bill for security! Hurry 'em along and I'll pay you double!" And, creating quite a little whirlwind among the open-mouthed veterans, he blustered forth after the child...
...soon became aware that that radiant duad of blueness was looking in my direction. In short, our eyes met; they looked at each other; no - not exactly at each other; that would have been improper. They looked at a sort of middle point lying half-way on the straight line between them, the focal point where their visual rays converged. This of course was very harmless. Pretty soon they smiled, both pairs at the same time; but not at each other, only at the focal point. This certainly was unobjectionable. Unobjectionable? It was more; it was delightful...
...have no followers? [She does not answer, and he goes on.] Honest and capable? [Aside.] I suppose the old lady meant me to ask straight ahead...
...injurious habit that the Gymnasium is closed at 5.30; for most of the men who exercise there board at Memorial Hall, where the dinner hour is from 5.30 to 6.30. If, therefore, the Gymnasium were kept open till six, those who stayed until that time would have to rush straight from their exercise to their dinner in order to get anything at all to eat. The result would be a most melancholy set of dyspeptics. As it is, men must leave off work at 5.30. They can then dress at their leisure, and have ample time to quiet down before...