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...meeting '78 decided to make some changes in the usual Class Day exercises. In the forenoon ivy planting with an oration and poem is proposed; in the afternoon the exercises at the hall will be as usual, but at the grove the class prophecy and the prophecy on the prophet will be substituted for the customary oration, and the squabble between Sophomores and Freshmen will be omitted. The promenade concert will be held on the campus Wednesday evening. A platform will be erected, and the grounds and buildings illuminated with Japanese lanterns...
...which we do not attempt to deny, if the College can afford to make a useful improvement in one building, then, a fortiori, it can afford to make indispensable improvements in others. We know we speak to deaf ears, but it is better to be a Cassandra than no prophet...
...remarked that the quotation, "A prophet," etc., is from the New Testament, - quite a different thing from the "Hebrew Scripture...
...sometimes said that a student, like a prophet, "is not without honor except in his own country"; more often, I think, the reverse is true, and that outside of the academical town a student is considered, no matter what his age and how dignified his bearing, as "a boy not yet out of college." The inability of collegians, especially members of the younger colleges, to understand that they are considered as of comparatively little importance, except by the juvenile portion of society, causes much amusement to their elders. Not that I would have the Freshman who entered college in June...
...reach. In the foreground Lord Nelsing in the hagonies of death, and yet a-sayin' to the coxswain, who says, "Can I do anythink, Lord Nelsing?" says he. "Nothink," says his lordship, quite hearty-like, and dies. SCENE NO. 3: The Pelican of the Desert, as mentioned by the Prophet Job in the Hacts of the Apostles, derived from two Latin words - peli, fish, and can, can - signifying fish-can. By some commentators thought to mean that he can manage fish; but by others supposed to refer to the size of his enormous bill, on vich he carries home...