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...shave regularly or to let it grow. I chose the latter alternative. But, as every one knows, the most critical and unsatisfactory period in the growth of a mustache is from the time when it first makes its appearance till it has reached about an inch in length. At the end of the third week mine had reached more than half an inch, and I began to feel somewhat relieved, when suddenly I received an invitation to a grand evening party. Of course I could n't go with a half-grown mustache, so it had to come...
...started it again after that. This time it had fully reached an inch in length when I received a postal that our society-photograph was to be taken, so it had to come off again. Once more I had to go through the painful transition-period, and a third engagement compelled me to shave it off again. I am now getting desperate. Shall not try it again, but I have sent for some extra-adhesive court-plaster, flesh color, which I am going to paste on my upper lip. Perhaps that will keep the mustache from growing. If it does...
...drinking-bouts are far more amusing than the more notorious duels. These take place sometimes at the Bier Keller, sometimes in the rooms of a society. Imagine a party of students in a large garden, seated on a long wooden bench before a table of equal length, under the shade of horse-chestnut trees. At one side stands a low wooden building into which one after another the students disappear, and emerge again with a large glass of beer, accompanied by a huge piece of bread and cheese. There are no Kellner, and each one has to go into...
...vocal entertainment given at the Cambridge Conservatory of Music on the evening of March 4, by Mr. George Lyon, Jr., and Mr. D. M. Babcock, may be considered as a decided success. The programme for the evening was of unusual length, replete with excellent selections, all of which were well delivered and much appreciated by the audience. Among the selections by Mr. Lyon were: Tennyson's Lady Clare, Poe's Bells, The Maniac, Little Jim, and others. His delivery of Tennyson's Lady Clare was excellent, and served well to illustrate his powers in that style of reading...
...shall investigate this subject more at length when we come to discuss Dana Hill's "Theory of Hypostatization." There is still another assertion in regard to Faith, to wit: that it is "the primary origin of the literary, scientific, philosophical, mechanical, physical, and organic world." Rather a sweeping statement, I fear; that faith is the primary origin of the first five worlds which Bratt mentions is self-evident, - but is Faith, considered as Faith, and not as Hope or Charity, the primary origin of the organic world? I doubt it. To my mind, as well as to the minds...