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SCENE, German Class. PROFESSOR (to a '78 Miss). What does enthaupten mean? '78 Miss. It means to behead a person. PROFESSOR. Then what does behaupten mean? '78 Miss. I should think that meant to put a head on him. - Cornell...
...distances. There have, to be sure, been a few who have been in training for the races, and they may have made better time than before; still the improvement is confined to a small number. An easy saunter to Porter's or Mt. Auburn is what most men still mean by "taking a walk," and any one who has walked to Belmont or Arlington or the Waverly Oaks considers that he is quite justified in boasting of his prowess to his friends. Not that we mean to say that ten or twelve miles is not a good walk...
...evident to an outsider, from our ways of manifesting our tastes in this direction. We have, to be sure, a few purely social societies, others social and literary; but both, the first in particular, are limited in their scope, and of course confined to a certain number. Other means of social enjoyment in college we have not. A Harvard Union, the plan for which was ably set forth in a recent number of the "Crimson," would, setting the debates and literary work aside, do much to promote a better feeling and understanding among men of different sets...
...eminently illogical and misleading to select out any one as the sole cause of a most complex result. And this brings us to the second bit of nonsense, whose commonness the majority of our college men, who do not see the exchanges, remain happily ignorant of; we mean the wholly imaginary light in which Harvard is represented as regarding her emancipation from the old system of required studies into the civilization of electives. To quote an exchange on this advance, "It is a pretty well understood fact that Harvard has made nothing by the change, and that she would...
...enable the Nine to return home by the night train from New York. The first innings opened favorably for Harvard, as Leeds took his base on an error by catcher, and scored before the side went out. Then followed three whitewashes for Harvard, Princeton in the mean time scoring three runs. In the fifth innings the Harvards became completely demoralized, and allowed their opponents to score three unearned runs, offsetting it by but one for themselves. This left the score 6 to a against us, with Princeton jubilant. Now began one of the most exciting up-hill games I ever...