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Homer's catalogue of ships can only be rivalled in prolixity by a catalogue of the innumerable colleges and "universities" of the West. Ohio, perhaps, can claim to be the greatest mother of colleges in the Union; at least her brood is more numerous than any other. Kenyon, Oberlin, University of Wooster, Baldwin University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio University (located amid the classic shades of "Athens"), Heidelberg College, Denison University, Wittenberg College, Antioch College - the list is truly apalling. The predominance of the title, "University," in such a list as the above is very significant. Nothing seems to satisfy...
...assumed the Toga Virilis?" An apothegm on "Hasty Writers" (transformed by some malicious reader before me to "Hasty-Pudding Writers!") is quoted here: "Little writers compose books apace; for naturalists observe that the less the insect is the oftener it lays, and the faster it propagates; but then their brood is very short-lived...
...famed Porcellian brood...
...brood darkness...
Parturient with her yearly brood...