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Saturday, May 21st. - Single shell race in new club singles over three quarter mile course in the Basin. Men in same heat may agree to use their own boats. Fee 50c. Handsome mug to winner, and also second prize...
...best of the stories is entitled "The O'Driscolls of Hungry Hill." It treats of the Irish famine in a sympathetic manner. "The Conversion of the Hug-Mug-Gee Islands" contains an ingenious idea, amusingly worked out. "Cosette" begins with an unnecessarily long and rather tedious description of an artist. The plot is ineffective, because its end is apparent before it is fairly introduced. The French has a decidedly Anglicized sound...
...America, Switzerland, Egypt, yea and Japan, to give a cosmopolitan flavor to the gathering. "The Watch on the Rhine," "God Save the Queen," and "Hail Columbia" are all roared out together in amiable discord. Some student conceives the gay notion of beating time on the table with his beer mug. The happy idea is infectious; and a thousand mugs thump ponderously upon the deal boards. Then all begin to stamp in unison and smite the tables with their canes. Even this ear-splitting uproar does not do full justice to the enthusiasm of one group. So they leap upon their...
...hearers, and in order to maintain his aggressive standpoint successfully, and to convince his hearers of the truth of his statement, he gave a vivid description of one of these "drinking nights." The students form regular clubs whose constitution, by-laws, and members all centre about the beer-mug. A meeting is held once or twice every week in some particularly favored "kneipe," where the most palatable beer can be had. Some of these clubs appoint a "praeses" or president for a year, others for a university term, and still others for a period of a few weeks. The main...
...influences were too strong to be overcome by a rush, and few men joined the society, except those who were already total abstainers. These unhappy conditions continue to such an extent, that, I think, a man who sees no harm to himself in a glass of wine or a mug of beer, should sacrifice his own pleasure for the sake of influencing by his example those who are, perhaps, sacrificing their chances for even respectable success in life. But this cannot be expected from more than a very few men, as each student thinks his own influence would...