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...nostra aetate quoque nec pecunia, nec mole rerum immensa, nec machinatione callida alte volantium aut vim fulminis ipsam tractantium, neque audacia polum glacialem explorantium poterimus pravos et improbos invare acignaros instituere; sed necesse est nos mentes hominum illuminatione animorum divina incendere et excitare...
...agreed to bestow cups on their nine, emblematic of the victories won against Yale last year. This decision was very natural and very laudable; but aut pecunia aut nil and names with dollar signs affixed to them in a miserable blue-book are not money. Whereas over $100 have been subscribed for, the management has as yet heard the clink of but $60. We trust that we need simply mention this fact without enforcing its significance and the remedies for it by mighty arguments. The course to be pursued is too axiomatic in its plainness to admit of demonstration...
There were several essays, however, that are worthy of note, either from their own merits or their subject. Mr. Croswell read an essay, a third of which was Latin poetry, "De Lunae natura; utrum viridis casei sit aut contra." His strongest argument was that the moon was a matter of square feet and inches, while it was impossible to cut in-ches out of cheese. Mr. Emerson wrote on "A Shabby Monarch, or Napoleon out at Elba." Mr. Gerrish's subject was, "Whirly and Late, or the Last Waltz" (whirly for early, you know, because you whirl when you dance...
...volat, aut arundo...
Tent ridentes aut sereni...