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...tells about the work of some of the prominent university men whom Mr. Winsor has met in England. Mr. Winsor speaks of the barren appearance of the college buildings and grounds at this season when the ivy on the old walls has disappeared and the trees have lost that thick foliage that makes English country so beautiful. The aspect of antiquity and decay that the buildings presented was not all pleasing. Inside the buildings, however, it was a different thing. The coziness of the college balls at Oxford and Cambridge was a thing that could not be found in either...
...Thick blue books are to be brought to German 1a recitation today to Professor Barllett...
...FISKE, JR., Secretary.LOST.- Will the man who took my umbrella with a thick knotty handle by mistake for his own with smaller handle please make another exchange with me and oblige...
...present force of fifty men, the field will be finished about the middle of next month. At present they are digging trenches all over the 20 acres, in which the gravel from the now levelled banks is put, while the loam thus thrown up is spread 10 inches thick over the entire surface. The dike is being strengthened against the tide; and the few remaining acres beyond will be gradually filled by college refuse. A few trees have been left, thus breaking the monotony of the level ground. The whole field will be drained through a tide-gate, which...
...there be days in life when men stand at once in the full sight of the highest uses of human existence, and also with the sound of the great uproar of human energy filling their ears, days when the quiet years behind them are thick with great visions of character and truth, and the busy years upon whose border their feet stand are calling them with the abundant testimony of activity and power-must not these be the days in which men catch the spirit of St. Paul, days when they crave the livest power for the highest work, both...