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...such an event, perhaps the stigma of being silent is not so great, after all. Certainly there is not much of a fine art in doing what the veriest hod-carrier could do. Yet sometimes, while reading Addison, or Lamb, or Carlyle or Coleridge--or Holmes, there comes the wish that all this knowledge and mental stimulation that is being showered upon Cambridge with virtually every lecture hour could be used with enjoyable results outside of class-rooms and the covers of blue-books. Then really could he who prices himself on his "cleverness" stand or fall on solid merit...
...MORNING PRAYER. Rev. Dean Hod. as, Appleton Chapel...
...MORNING PRAYER. Rev. Dean Hod es, Appleton Chapel...
YESTERDAY afternoon a large crowd assembled on Jarvis Field to see the remarkable game of ball between the "Harvard Picked Nine" and the "Hod-lifters of Sever Hall." The features of the game were, the Borsair's sharp work as pitcher, the able support the Frauditor gave him behind the bat, and the fine fielding of Blister. We only have space to give a detailed account of the first inning. At precisely three o'clock the Borsair, gracefully poising himself on one toe, let fly the sphere. Moriarty, for the Hod-lifters, amid cries of the crowd...
...means of conspicuous posters, offers a reward of $25; we sincerely hope that some well-deserving fellow will improve this opportunity of turning twenty-five hundred honest pennies. Where are the Johns and the Michaels, the Phillips and the Patricks, faithful slaves of the water-pail and the coal-hod, who never cease to haunt our College buildings? Let them add one more employment to their varied lives, and apprehend this thief...