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CHUM said, "Brace up, take some beer, do you good, my old fel -" He fell with a heavy thud, the boot-jack did its work. Wearily casting myself upon the ottoman after this effective display of energy, I seized my throbbing brow with both hands and exclaimed, "Oh, what a day we've had! Chum, slowly coming to, gathers his fractured members from debris of boot jack, murmurs incoherently, "Kiss me, mother, ere I die." "Get up, you drivelling idiot," I muttered, "and for the love of heaven collect me a bottle of seltzer." Chum exits, muttering something about...
...with that English-American Pressed-coat Poole, I had come home and ground! I wonder what this paper is on the floor. Why, it's the morning Echo! 'E??? Echo, ha! ha! joke. Give that to their item editor, poor thing! What's this editorial? 'The Greek Play.' Oh! take it away. Throw paper in the fire. What wouldn't I give for a dozen Little Neck clams. Well, there goes the twelve o'clock bell, and I must brace. Think I'd better get up and dress for lunch; and I hereby resolve not to go in town again...
...Annual Crimson Dinner will take place at Young's Hotel, Wednesday, February...
...exigencies of the study of elocution at Harvard. We should think that he would have referred to the fact that last year the students paid privately for the heating of Sanders Theatre, although the College ought to furnish a proper room and proper heating, for those who take elocution as well as any other study. We also expected to learn the reasons for the poor accommodations given to the students of speaking this year. Can it be that President Eliot has no very high estimate of the study of elocution? or does he regard the great impetus that has been...
...benefit of our jumpers, we would say, that the adoption of the National Association rules changes the manner of running broad jumping, and makes this event somewhat more difficult than under last year's rules. By the Association rules the competitor must take off behind the scratch, and the measurement will be taken from the scratch line to the first break of the ground made by any part of his person. Stepping over the line in an attempt will be "no jump," but will count as a "try." In the Intercollegiate rules the competitor was allowed to take off where...