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...student stands unrivalled; he may fail to win renown in the paths of learning, he may meet with continual defeat in the field of athletics, but silent testimony to his greatness and importance in the eyes of the world, such as the above, cannot fail to bring a soothing balm to his heart...
...worst; while we are torn by dissensions at home, foreign enemies take arms against us. Every mail brings us some paper in which we are horrified to find some marked article about "discrepancies." Why, it has become our b&?;te noire; it follows us everywhere, sleep brings us no balm, for we dream of it; when we awake, we see from our window a glaring bulletin about the "dining hall." Oh, what have we done to merit this? If we have sinned, then let the mills of the gods, like the tutor paid by the hour, grind slowly...
...friends. Let us depart. We have heard enough. Let us withdraw while we are still wrapped in this nameless, holy balm, - this light and this sweetness...
...gopher, Apollinaris Water, and Freshmen. But this isn't all. If this chaos of uncertainty, this boiling, seething torrent of confusion, this benumbing consciousness of the unreality of the existent, took possession of my mind only while actually at the lectures and readings, there would be some balm in Gilead to soothe and heal my burning, frenzied, demon-haunted intellect. But there is a fate upon me. A brooding curse from Ate sits within my mind, driving me on and ever exacting the penalty of - Ha! ???, Sospiter, Mein-Gott-in-Himmel, Mon Dieu, Good Lord! Save me! Save...
...balm for the wounded feelings of our Nine, the following table is inserted showing the excellent individual record made by the majority, both at the bat and in the field...