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...piece being inscribed with appropriate selections from "Schmidt's Metres" and "Curtius's Etymology." He usually carried "the shield of Achilles," but as this was being used by his protege, Hellenic Duo, he carried in its stead an ingeniously constructed defence of jelly and tin combined in certain proportions. Though small and seemingly any thing but robust, it would have been worse than prolepsis - to would have been a terrible anacoluthon - to suppose that his prowess was to be measured by his stature. The fourth of this stout band had the keenest eye and longest head that mortal ever beheld...
...glad to learn of the revival of the Lampoon, and feel confident that it will meet with a hearty support from the College in general. Though the paper did not last year fully maintain the standard of excellence which it had before reached, yet this was probably due to the fact that some of the editors had graduated, and could not, on account of outside matters, bestow upon it the time necessary for complete success. For this reason we are happy to learn that the paper is to be controlled by undergraduates, and under their management we have no doubt...
...other events, the Mile Run has a fair number of representatives; and last year found more men than usual in the 1/4-Mile Run, and the 100 yards, though in this latter a lack of sufficient training and preparation was most obvious. In the Mile Walk we have only one man to look to, and should he become in any way disabled just before an important meeting, we should have absolutely no one to take his place. The same may be said of the 220 yards' Dash, and the Standing High Jump...
...family, indeed, had some claim to respectability; her father, and also a distant cousin, had visited England in youth. But Mr. Jackson, although admired to excess by his own countrymen, was in reality a coarse and ignorant man. So was his wife, and all her relations. His daughter, too, though she had aspirations, was very uncultured and inexperienced. The polite English people looked upon her with horror not unmingled with amazement. They did not understand her vagaries; they did not know that American society is provincial...
...Though flat, is never level...