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...commencement exercises are concerned, we do not feel so strongly. It does not matter very much in what language the president tells us to come forward for our degrees, so long as we get those valuable pieces of parchment. We would suggest, however, that it would add much to the impressiveness of the occasion to have the pronunciation used a little more in accordance with that taught in the university, for the sake of consistency at least...
...altar, over which grace is always said before each meal. Passing on from here we come to the library which contains 250,000 volumes, many of them of great age and value. The most precious is undoubtedly the famous "Book of Kells," an old illuminated work on parchment, of rare merit as a work of art. The library is open to studious citizens, as well as to those connected with the college and there is a tine reading hall...
...closely. It is a deed to six and a half acres of land, called the Black Fields, in Miteham, Sussex, England, and is dated Lady Day, March, 1651. Brown University was founded in Sussex, England, and subsequently removed to Rhode Island, and it is thought possible that the ancient parchment which has just been brought to light may be the original deed for the land on which the college was first built. The document will be placed in the hands of the Rhode Island Historical Society for thorough examination...
...text of Horace has been added to the beautiful Parchment Library...
...without a poney. I've had an easy time in college, and have enjoyed well the 'Otium cum dignitate' - the learned leisure of a scholar's life - always despising digging, you know, and what with ticking, screwing and deading, am candidate for a piece of parchment tomorrow, certifying that I am admitted to be by all A. B., which being interpreted is A Booby, a passport all the world over...