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...glee club. They wish to make it a general class matter, and we should urge all freshmen who have had any practice in singing, and who care to give the time to it, to present themselves to-day at the trial. When the spring comes, and men begin to loaf on the grass in the yard after dinner on warm evenings, it will be a very pleasant thing for the freshmen to have as a nucleus, a knot of fellows who have spent time enough in practice to be able to carry the parts in college songs...
...class become really interested in the matter, so that they would take some trouble to set forth their views in the different sections of the country to which they might go after graduation, we should soon hear from it. They would become the leaver which would leaver the whole loaf...
...ladders, until they are Sampsons above, grafted upon pigmies below. Probably one tenth of the students are thus selected for transformation into illy-balanced, unevenly developed specialties, looking something like the grotesque and abnormal figures seen on Chinese fans, while the remaining nine-tenths are totally neglected, allowed to loaf if they please, work if they please-possibly to receive permanent injuries from injudiciously selected and recklessly executed exercises...
...French engineer, after a series of experiments with a loaf of bread baked by a Vassar College girl, now announces that the project of tunneling Mont Blanc is entirely practical...
...loaf and I flop...