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...birds about 110 are Oscines. This means only that their vocal organs are of the same kind as the true singers' - it does not follow that they can all sing, and there are many that cannot, as the crow and the blue jay, while there are several sweet singers among the non-oscines. We have about 40 good singers. English critics say that our bird chorus is not to be compared with their own. It may be true that there is no one American songster like the skylark, but England can show only 23 song birds to our forty...
...need for a new gymnasium at Princeton is pressing, as the present structure is much over-crow led. It is reported that a New York alumnus, whose generosity has already been shown to the college. is contemplating a gift which will give the Princeton athletic men plenty of indoor accommodations. Meanwhile a scheme is on foot to remodel the present interior...
...Monday's issue I noticed a suggestion that a policeman be employed to patrol the yard and frighten the small boys away. The suggestion is praiseworthy. But a further and still more valuable use might be made of the said policeman. He might be employed as a portable scare-crow and have appended to him before and aft placards bearing the firm injunction, keep off the grass. He might then be moved from place to place by "the authorities," and put athwart the pths of the sand-loving students who prefer to see a checker-board of paths, rather than...
...women are gazing with white faces of pity, but with none the less thirsty greediness, upon some fascinating spectacle; little children are being held aloft in strong arms, that they too may see the dreadful thing, and they do see, and they toss their tiny, wavering arms aloft and crow right gleefully. The objects of Interest are four corpses, which are lying upon iron frameworks behind the glass, their heads propped high, their jaws agape, and their eyes staring in all the grim majesty of Death, as they gaze unflinchingly upon the guests who are thronging to this grisly reception...
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