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...same in Greek!" I cried, altering the proverb to suit her aesthetic...
...duty of the Corporation to provide better means of egress from our dormitories in case of fire. Were a first class fire to break out to-morrow with great loss of life and property, every one would be clamorous for better protection, or, to use a homely proverb, the barn would be locked after the home was stolen. There is nothing in the nature of things why we are not just as liable to a fire as any other collection of large buildings occupied by tenants, and why a fire catching near the stairs and getting a good headway would...
...something disagreeable the writer has overstepped all bounds of truth and propriety. It is to be hoped for his own credit that the next time he is troubled with a bilious turn he will refrain from using his pen, and in conclusion I may remind him of the appropriate proverb, "A little pot boils over easily...
...Senior who gets a degree without an average of sixty for the year will have calculated with marvellous closeness. The plan, in fact, is to have our last year made up of "all work and no play." Complaints come to us already that the conclusion of the nursery proverb will be fulfilled in our case. The University will lose that social tone for which it has so long been justly famous. Life here will lack the brilliancy that has distinguished it in times gone by, and will degenerate into one "demmed horrid grind." We confess that the aspect...
...SPANISH proverb says, "A kiss without a mustache is an egg without salt...