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...election of Presidents. (a) In the past they have granted second terms only to such men as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant and Cleveland. (b) They have shown it in the case of the present President (1) They elected Cleveland for a second term after a beak of four years...
...Bail, H. Holmes, P. Dennis, B. Hayes, S. Fordyce, S. Kimball, L. Redpath, P. Bacon, F. Merrill, J. Proctor Jr., J., Gibbs, F. Curtis, R. Davis, H. Packard, W. Rand, C. Tilden, J. Gulick, F. Jordan, H. Scott, D. Walcott, H. Wood, T. B. Flershem, F. Woodbridge, S. Beak, H. Burdett, B. Curtis, G. Scull, C. Wood, N. Bryer, E. Austin, E. Wadsworth, S. Marvin, H. Wilder, C. Stillman, J. Abbott, Chas. Manning, C. Crapo, J. W. Prentiss, R. Stone, John Flint, F. Goodridge, J. Valentine, F. Hall, J. Knox, H. Block, P. Rust, E. Edwards, P. Gierasch, R. Pierson...
...elaborate menu. The guests were those who had been arrested and had paid fines during the year. They were not known by name, but by number. They filed into the dining hall in the usual lockstep used in the penitentiaries. Such toasts as "Cops," "Nippers," "Bail," "Jugs," "Bars," "Beak," "Fines," etc., were responded to. The statistician of the occasion found that the city was $500 richer for the guests having been residents of Yale College. The misdemeanors for which the guests had been fined were stealing signs, building bonfires and singing hilarious songs, - Globe...
...costumes of the 'Birds' were probably less conventional and more picturesque than those actually employed by Aristophanes and their ornithological accuracy was secured as nearly as possible by Prof. Newton. Their dress consisted of a bird's head with an appropriate beak, covering the head of the actor, except an oval opening for his face, and wings reaching from the shoulders to the knees and enveloping the arms, by which they were moved from within. Some of the birds had long necks extending several feet above the heads of the actors; these were swans, a spoon-ball, and a gorgeous...
...whether the American student played as good a knife and fork as our own Cambridge boys at home; and how the two groups compared as respects their physical development. It is but a tame business for an onlooker to watch a student in his rooms dipping his beak into the Pierian spring and then throwing his head back, like a bird, to let the learning get down - because the onlooker can make little of the observation. But when the same student leaves his tomes and is placed alongside some roasted joints and college-baked bread, the onlooker can draw...