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...celebration would be suspended from Thursday evening until Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock, has been greeted with general satisfaction by the students. The constant and hard worker will sigh a mighty sigh of relief when his eyes light on these lines, and the constitutional fainant will smile with lurid joy at finding the period of his loafing so largely extended. He will even tell you that the vacation ought to last until Wednesday morning at nine o'clock. However, it is to be hoped that the proverbial spirit of indifference, which by some calumniators is said to prevade...
...anxious heads thrust out; hurrying crowds gathered at the scene. A bright light illuminated the eastern side of the quadrangle, and in dangerous proximity to University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared and attempted to quench the conflagration. Repeated efforts, aided by a snow-shovel, at last prevailed, and only the charred remains of six once...
Chase from thy brow the lurid frown that lowers...
...lurid pallor lengthening thro...
...within the lightings lurid...