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...cloud through which the sky shines clear and blue. In our daily life good and evil may not be mingled in equal proportion, nor can we judge the proportion of good and evil in the lives of our companions from exterior appearances, for many may be living under the blackest of clouds who are apparently enjoying their earthly life...
...teams in each and every branch of athletics; and contrasts, invidious to Harvard, tho' inexact are often drawn between this college and Yale. I have even heard it said that we take too little interest in our teams, that our athletic enthusiasm is not remarkable, that we are - oh! blackest crime, indifferent...
...county fair, no one takes the course until after a dozen false starts. This is the time, as the college almanac says, to get in your early Bowdoin dissertations. Take a quire of the best letter-paper, and rule off a wide inch of the margin. Write with the blackest of ink very plainly, and give special attention to punctuation. A piece without other points is often saved by punctuation...
...table of contents of the Niagara Index, from which the above is taken, we notice the following subjects: "Napoleon Bonaparte," "Gerald Griffin," "Edmund Burke," "Relics and Souvenirs of St. Vincent de Paul," "The Pearl that under Blackest Wave," "Waning Stars and Withering Flowers...
...little souls with perfect bliss, and is himself expecting every moment an increase in his worldly goods. Is not this true happiness, to be doing good to others and to be getting good from them in return? One cannot imagine an organ-grinder to be a scamp. Take the blackest scoundrel and let him go out into the country and grind a barrel-organ for ten days, and at the end of that time, what with the circle of delighted faces constantly around him and the humanizing effect of so much music, he will have recovered all the innocence that...