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Next came a dashing fellow whose chin was elevated, and whose mouth was moulded in an habitual sneering smile. This was a Wit and a Critic. "Bold knight of the quill," said he, "take my advice: make your paper caustic and spicy; make fun of the literary men, the athletes, the bummers, the professors, and the college papers. Make fun of college life. Sneer at it, my boy, and your paper will go. Here is a light article on 'Lies in Literary Life, or a Factitious Faculty,' and a few good things for the Brevity Column...
ONLY four members of the adjoining sisterhood take the whole course, and three of these are daughters of Unitarian ministers...
...Athletic Association is in receipt of a kind invitation from the Secretary of the Westchester Hare and Hounds Club, to take part in their run on Christmas Day. The start will be at 10 A. M., at Shradee's Hotel, Woodlawn, on the N. Y. and Harlem Riv. R. R. Any Harvard man in New York should avail himself of this invitation...
...pair which can be adjusted in whatever way the user wishes. There will be no machines for general development, such as those of Dr. Winship and others; but from thirty to fifty machines intended to develop the different parts of the body, in order that no one man may take possession of a machine and monopolize it, as was too frequently the case in the past. There will be a new style of adjustable pulling weight. In principle it is the same as the old pulling weight, but in the details of construction it is vastly superior. Wooden pulleys...
...TAKE one Latin School boy of a tender age, - one who has trodden on the edge of dangerous and unknown truths preferred, - two cupfuls of platitudes, four cupfuls of conceit; then add two pounds of feeling allusions to the effect that the great majority of your friends never use soap and water, and don't know enough to open their bedroom windows at night. Garnish the dish with "it seems to me," and sprinkle freely with the pronoun I. Serve with grandiloquence and bombast...