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Enter MR. JOHN BROWN and MISS SARAH JONES, Sophomores.SHE. Come, Jack, you must hurry through your dinner in two hours and a half, for I've engaged you for the first waltz. (Beckoning to the attentive waitress.) Are there really no other soups but Bisc a la Reine and Consomme...
...informed me that an instructor in German had kept his marking-machine there, and one day, when he was trying to get minus fifty per cent out of it, the thing exploded. The instructor had twenty-four funerals. They buried as much of him as they could find the first time, and whenever another piece was discovered, they had an extra funeral...
DURING the fortnight which has elapsed since the first part of this letter was written, I have learned that Columbia intends to enter an eight and a four, not only in the Metropolitan Association Regatta of Friday, July 4, but also in the N. A. A. O. regatta of a few days later; that Cornell is almost certain to be a competitor in both events on the latter occasion; that Princeton has nine men in training for the same four-oared race; that the proposed prize for class sixes will not be offered before next year; that Newark will probably...
...races. According to a letter of its secretary, dated January 24, and published in the Cornell Era, the N. A. A. O. would be glad to offer flags for a race which the Freshmen of Cornell might arrange to row with Columbia, Harvard, or any other college, as the first event in its regatta for the three challenge cups. I suggest, therefore, that as some of the Harvard Freshmen appear dissatisfied because their proposed match with Cornell was broken off, they agree to compete with those flags in that regatta, in addition to rowing with Columbia. As the Harvard class...
...Mulligan, '79, President; C. A. Hobbs, '80, Secretary; T. P. Ivy, '81, Treasurer; C. W. Bradley, '80, Major; T. H. Simmons, '81, Adjutant; B. S. Turpin, '80, Sergeant-Major; C. H. Pew, '80, Quartermaster-Sergeant. Company A has elected the following officers: J. S. Mitchell, '79, First Lieutenant; A. H. Bowen, '79, Second Lieutenant; E. H. Squibb, Medical School, First Sergeant; C. F. Squibb, '81, Second Sergeant; F. B. Hall, '80, Third Sergeant...