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Barnum's.PROVIDENCE has of late been exceeding kind to our beloved University in preserving to us the lives of three of the Holworthy Aristocracy. These gentlemen were visiting Barnum's World's Fair at the time when the terrific tornado struck the canvas palace, filling the hearts of all with terror and consternation. Amid the howls of the affrighted animals, the shrieks of women, and the thunder of the elements, they rushed round (as did several thousand others) with a stoical indifference to their personal peril, and besought all to calm themselves. It was owing to their superhuman exertions that...
Especially if, as the clock struck...
...Struck to the heart, and how away
...second, and by far stronger, reason why people overestimate the jollity and dash of Cambridge life, is the fact that students themselves often indulge in descriptions of such marvellous adventures of the Freshman and Sophomore years that the credulous are struck with admiration and the timid with fear. An instance of this was brought to our notice last summer while visiting at a little country town in Pennsylvania, where, at a single evening gathering, we obtained more information about college jokes and scrapes than had come to us during a two years' previous residence at Cambridge. The reason of this...
...will be on sale, if not when this is read, at all events by the first of next week. The issue has been unexpectedly delayed by the fact that the prints cannot be removed from the Library, and after the photograph has been taken in Cambridge the impression is struck off in Boston without having the original at hand to guide the expert in fixing upon the required tint...