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...loses himself in a party politics. He could not lose himself in a worse place. It would be an appalling sight if all our party politicians for the past ten years could be gathered into one mass. We could then witness the roughest, the toughest, the most corrupt heap of humanity that mortal man has ever seen. Politics everywhere is moaning beneath such men, to whom government is a thing of the past, and equity of the right sort unknown. Blindly fighting for party rights, they forget their country's welfare. We cannot look to our party for political purity...
Considerable excitement was caused yesterday morning a few minutes before twelve, by a small fire in the upper entry of University Hall. The fire occurred in the large wooden box outside the door among a large heap of waste paper, and for a few minutes made a dense smoke, with considerable flame. Fortunately there was a recitation being held at the time on the same floor, for had not some of the students perceived the smoke, the fire would doubtless have gone to the attic immediately overhead, thereby causing considerable damage. As it was, the fire was extinguished with...
...earth works in the valley none is so famous or so interesting in its religious signification as the Great Serpent Mound. The mouth is wide open and is evidently just about to swallow the oval shaped figure which is almost between the jaws. In this oval is a heap of stones, the altar on which the sacrifices were made to the rising sun, towards which the whole oval points. Here, in the altar, the oval and the serpent, are the three symbols of Asiatic religious rites, and that these mound builders crossed the Pacific ocean from Asia is a fact...
...fine, but the track was in poor condition. In the first event of the day, the mile handicap, there were twenty starters; on the third lap eight of these fell in a heap, but for tunately no one was badly hurt...
...baser tendencies of the Unversity. He fancies he has cleared himself by this lightly written phrase. In truth he has played the part of a mole. Without a glance at the fair structure which Harvard men have built in their prosperity, he has dug his way into a heap of the veriest rubbish and then blinded by the dust in his eyes, he has yielded to his distorted imagination and has called his work an accurate description of what he has found. Were every statement he has seen fit to make a complete truth-we deny this with...