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...large is very rich. If you look sharp you will see a small book of Ben Johnson's with this characteristic phrase: Sum Ben Jonsonii. It would take too much space to give even an incomplete list of autographs; here are a few: John Locke, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, William Wordsworth, Robt. Burns, Emanuel Kant, John Dryden, Walter Scott, Edmund Burke. The manuscripts are of still greater interest. A Latin poem by John Milton; a musical composition of Haydn's; a letter from George Washington to Gen. Schuyler; an official document of the Confederate States signed by Jeff. Davis...
...punting thus far has not been very good. Now there are two kinds of perfectly successful punts-the very long, high punt that sails so as to be easily misjudged and muffed, and the low, swift punt just over the "rusher's" heads, and placed between the backs, striking the ground so soon as to make it impossible to get a free catch. The last is the best, by far ; it changes the whole game. No one but Moffat of last year's Princeton team has used it much, but we hope our backs will try to learn...
...seeking to maintain its income, our school will compete in friendly emulation with the older institutes at Athens of France and Germany, not only to raise the standard of American scholarship, but to promote the world's understanding of the problems of that ancient life which soared with the swift and unerring flight of the eagle from the infancy of barbarism to the highest intellectual plane which has been attained...
...summary of the work done by the Harvard Total Abstinence League during the present college year. In this time three public meetings were held at which addresses were delivered by Prof. Wm. James, Ex-Governor John P. St. John, Hon. John B. Finch, Col. Geo. W. Bain, and General Swift. The total number of members on the roll is 148. Number now in college, 105. Forty-nine men have been added, and four have been removed through resignations...
...fitness for life in what they regard as the more civilized portion of the country. There are some who are roused by the ambition of a Marlborough-to amass a great fortune. Others are sure they are born to stir the world. Others, still, have the spirit of a Swift, who only labored to distinguish himself that he might be used "like a lord," and that the "reputation of great learning might do the work of a blue ribbon and a coach-and-six." Numbers, too, like Charles Lamb, are carried away with the idea that a life of leisure...