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...Latin as a living and flexible tongue, by familiar use in actual narrative and dialogue." Our readers may remember that we have already published an article which showed the unfairness of Mr. Reilley's insinuations against Harvard, and also that, so eager had this gentleman been to detect a mote in Mr. Allen's eye, he had not discovered the beam in his own eye; as, for instance, when he attacks Mr. Allen for using constructions which are sanctioned by the usage of Ovid and Horace. Of course, we do not suppose that the majority of our readers are interested...
...author of "An Evolutionist's idea of Harvard" may deem it supererogatory and profane in me to seek explanations when he has contented himself with vigorous adjectives, but a rational account of a small but inevitable excess of vice points out the mote that darkens the clear vision of that author and opens the way for a mild protest against the lengths to which rhetoric has led him. In the character assigned to us as indifferentists, we can hardly be indignant, and other considerations forbid us the forcible language of the article in question. Notice the ingenious paralipsis when...
...MOTE excitement at Yale! From the Courant, which is, by the way, a remarkably good number of a very good paper, we learn that there has been another insult offered to the "Skull and Bones" Society. A flag was discovered one morning floating from the Chapel spire, bearing the emblems of the "Bones," and the significant words, "Death to." This was afterwards secured by a Sophomore as a "memorabil," and lodged in the room of a Senior, from which place it was removed by stealth. Suspicion pointed at the "Scroll and Keys," and a arrant was obtained to search their...