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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...having by her vigorous efforts well thinned out a colony of mice, had one day got within her reach a certain young mouse, almost the last survivor of his race. He begged the feline for his life and liberty. "I am," said he, "very young, and have never tried to escape or outwit you. I have an interest in the continuance of our species, and although you may devour me now, there will be no gratification in having exterminated...
...conversations I had that night. Suffice it to say, that I danced with Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria, Barnum's Fat Woman (who came just up to my shoulder, and was very slight), the Goddess of Liberty, and several reigning princesses. I came away feeling that I had never been in such distinguished company before, and should recommend to any one afflicted with the blues a visit to a ball at Somerville. The cure would be complete...
...permanent one. A saving of more than a week has been made in the time of the mid-year and annual examinations; and more rest is needed by us all than ever before, as undoubtedly instructors are working both themselves and their pupils harder. Hour examinations and theses have never been imposed in such numbers as this year. Apart from these considerations, the advance of the College in other ways should be marked by an abandonment of the old high-school notion that the shorter the vacations the larger the amount of knowledge gained, and by a recognition...
...really Freshmen, just like a tadpole tries to be a frog. They have to learn all sorts of things, - Ethics and Dentistry and Agriculchar, and another kind of culchar that they learn in the pretty building with the bell. Among other things, they have to learn Geography. Now I never could remember all those colors on the map, - could you? Green for Arizona and blue for Oregon. I have a pair of - Oh! bless me, I quite forgot - so I 've thought of a way to interest the poor little things. Make nice pretty verses about all the places...
TAKE one Latin School boy of a tender age, - one who has trodden on the edge of dangerous and unknown truths preferred, - two cupfuls of platitudes, four cupfuls of conceit; then add two pounds of feeling allusions to the effect that the great majority of your friends never use soap and water, and don't know enough to open their bedroom windows at night. Garnish the dish with "it seems to me," and sprinkle freely with the pronoun I. Serve with grandiloquence and bombast...