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...That 's wrong!" said the teacher, whose name was P. D. Gogg...
...meet with instantaneous notice, we cry out that our privileges are being curtailed, our rights infringed upon. Our virtuous indignation so blinds us that we do not wait to investigate the facts involved, but rush headlong into violent upbraidings of those whom we consider the authors of the supposed wrong. The recent complaints with regard to the hours for closing the Gymnasium are a case in point. An interview with Dr. Sargent clears up the whole matter. The real reason for the present regulation is not, as the complainants hastily assumed, to defraud the students for the sake of certain...
...SUIPEE," said Dingus recently, "Why is the Columbia College Press like a performance at Tony Pastor's?" "Because a bird in hand is worth two in a bush," replied Suipee. "Wrong," said Dingus, "it's because it is composed of Actors and Spectators." Suipee swept the floor, Dingus was the broom. - Acta Columbiana...
...five minutes, making no account of the dead boughs and thorny vines that impeded his way; then realizing that he must be on the wrong path, he stopped to consider. The girl could not be far from him, that was sure; he therefore rushed to this side and to that, vainly hoping to catch a glimpse of the fair. At last, tired out, he sat down to rest; and then, for the first time, he noticed that day was nearly done. He was frightened, now, for the girl's sake; he shouted, "Tue! Tue! You will be lost! I promise...
...Lacrosse men; but has no bearing upon the question of discourtesy which, in the judgment of the writer in the Advocate, is one of considerable importance, but which the answer in the Crimson waives, and, by silence upon this point, admits, we infer, that the Lacrosse Association is wrong at least in this respect...