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...cuts corns and cures bunions for a living - professor; he waltzes three hours without resting - professor; plays the fiddle and imparts to others the secrets of the diabolical art - professor; walks a slack rope stretched across the street - professor; goes without eating twenty days - professor; rides four horses bareback - professor; sings in the choir - professor; teaches a brass band - professor; cures warts - professor; plays billiards for a living - professor; trains dogs - professor; performs some clever trick of sleight of hand - professor; does anything in the world except teach, and knows less of books and schools than he does of heaven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/2/1882 | See Source »

...college paper nor every intelligent student that moulds the opinion of the college; the influential person is he who is called the "popular man." Our college life is like a circus, - a modern circus with many horses and several clowns. The popular man is the dazzling bareback rider; the rest of us are the horses and the clowns. Round and round walk the clowns, - round and round the ring go the horses, - up in the air goes the rider. Applause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO MAKES PUBLIC OPINION AT HARVARD? | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

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