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...shake the confiding trust of his dear teachers, and be for ever condemned in their eyes as a wicked chapel-cutter? He sickened at the thought. The chapel bell chimed sweetly on the dewy morning air. What could he do? His brain was on fire! Where could he turn...
...shaft: "Say, Ned, do you see that effulgent bald-head two seats in front?" "Yes." "Well, do you know why that's like our college bell?" I gave it up. "Because it's got a good open clear(r)ing, and is probably not easily turned." We thought this a pretty good shot, and watched the effect. It certainly made an impression, but there wasn't that encouraging ripple of merriment that we desired. It was now my turn: "Can you tell me, Will, why that bald-head is a bad debtor?" "Why, because it produces no hair...
...HAVE always been of a mathematical turn of mind, and lately I have developed into an inventive genius. In the first place, I invented questions that floored the instructor in Mathematics o; then I got up a table which, being written on one inch of cuff, will solve all problems of the differential calculus; and, finally, I invented a mathematical motor. Without telling the secret of this (which of course I intend to keep to myself) I can tell that, impelled by this motor, one can sail through boundless realms of space with the speed of thought...
...theatre of the Harvard Didascaleium, and in general that we must not make the play ridiculous by intruding the obsolete. But those who have had the good fortune to be present at the performance of Tuesday or Thursday must admit that if the echoes from Sanders made Sophocles turn in his grave, it was with a sigh of relief that his immortal production had been at last freed from the conventionalities and restrictions of a Greek festival, and rendered with its full dignity, grace, and power. We went to see a piece of antiquarianism, and we came away feeling that...
...average tennis man can no more play tennis without a small boy or two to chase balls than - well - than the Football Team can play a game without posing, every five minutes, with hands on knees, for their photograph. Now, the man of business capacity and of a speculative turn of mind, who will get up a corner in small boys, will make a sufficient fortune to enable him to go to the first night of the Greek play at present prices. The corner could be very easily arranged. Get all the tennis nets in the Society building, and make...