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...nearly 100 years. About the year 1854 some of the students, as a joke on the faculty, took the bell down and sent it to the students of the South Carolina College at Columbia, who forwarded it to the Oglethorpe University in Georgia, whence it was shipped to Macon and was there lost sight of for several years; but it was finally found and restored to its former place in the basement of the college building, where it has hung ever since, a witness to the comings and goings, and the joys and sorrows of student life. Mr. John Cahill...
...following universities confer the degree of A. B. without any knowledge of Greek. Dalhousie college, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Oregon, Randolph-Macon College, South Carolina college, and Swarthmore College...
This from the Leaves shows the sentiment at Lasell: "Our eyes first fall on the Randolph Macon Monthly, which contains a poem on 'How to Kiss;' also, two or three other articles pertaining to the same subject. Somebody must have had osculation on the brain. 'Let the good work proceed, and joy be unconfined...
...grew lighter as he went on; and he sought for knowledge in other ways. And he became expert in shuffling bits of pasteboard, covered with red and black spots; and he could tell the difference between the nut-brown ale of Vanity Fair and the red wine of Macon; and he no longer journeyed afoot, but in the wagon of one Shark. And Lighthead struggled often up the hill Difficulty, bristling with unfavorable conditions, but he never reached its summit; for, ere he had passed four years with his chosen band of Vanity Fair, the rulers of that mart...