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...sure you remember the ribbon. Adieu, - pleasant dreams, - ever...
...beginning, and provided the means of attaining it with the completeness of an engineer who has to tunnel a mountain. Moreover, a convenient key is furnished us to what would else be inexplicable in the history of half a century. Is there a popular rising in Saxony, be sure a 'priest is at the' bottom of it. Is there a conspiracy among the Germanic princes, is there a commotion among the great feudatories of France, does a Norman invade Greece and seek to overthrow the Eastern Empire, behold everywhere the evidence of profound design...
...reading college papers it often strikes us that some of the authors who supply the columns with poetry would succeed much better if they confined their efforts to writing prose. If they are gifted with some poetic feeling and a talent for versification, these abilities are sure to appear in writing prose, both in improving the style and in supplying the article with ideas which make it interesting in itself, without regard to the subject discussed. Too many having such talents imagine themselves to be gifted with "the vision and the faculty divine," to be moved by the same muse...
...possible, to fix upon the man. It pains me to be obliged to relate their ill-success. The Freshmen, when examined singly by the visiting committee appointed for the purpose, displayed, as a rule, the most firm and unblushing fronts. Some few instances of sheepishness there were, to be sure, and one Freshman, on the entrance of the urbane investigators, bashfully retreated to his bedroom, whence he was dislodged with some difficulty. All admitted the meanness of the act, and several gentlemen could express the violence of their indignation only by the use of words which even sporting papers banish...
...that "the conceit must be taken out of Freshmen" was not so absurd a one after all. Who knows but that the propensity to haze was a divinely seated instinct, created for good purposes, and that the College has done an unwise thing in attempting to root it out? Surely the Freshman's mind, when he comes here, is in a somewhat critical condition. Reared among the comforts and refinements, to be sure, of home, but also among its restrictions, he has been looking for a year or more to the freedom of college life. After his entrance, therefore...