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...there is any truth in the proverb that the smell of the bullock's blood is apt to beget a savagery in the slayer, the sweet voice of our Katharine may not have been without avail in mollifying the asperities of temper - if he had any - in that young Surrey butcher, Robert Harvard...
...expenditure of enterprise that while numerous courses and ample opportunities exist for the study of Arabic and Semetic languages a study of fully as great scholarly interest should be so much more restricted. The intelligent and well directed study of all periods of our history in detail can best beget a reasonable patriotism, and help to promote among educated men wise political counsels and disinterested citizenship. And in no subject is the direction of scholarly teachers through well-planed courses so much needed as in the tentative and as yet almost unwritten subject of American history. It is therefore greatly...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. -Considerable trouble is caused almost every day by the mixing up of hats in the dining hall. It certainly does not beget a person's best feelings to find on leaving the hall that his hat is gone, and in its place there is one much too large or too small for him. If each person would exercise a little care, such mistakes might be avoided, and a good deal of inconvenience done away with...
...height and age, is seldom more than two inches, and often, even, than one, while the well-set chest outgirths the indifferent one by seldom over three inches. Among girls, running is a lost art. Yet it is doubtful if an exercise was ever devised which does more to beget grace and ease of movement...
...wish and will can naught but pain beget...