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...must perforce seem a little too genteel, too cold, too Back Bay to serve as an adequate trustee for the Old Guard tradition. They will long for the homely democracy of Mr. Cannon, so often expressed by those homely democratic symbols-Uncle Joe's black cigar and thumping quid...
...unexampled audacity of the new member from the state where they smoke in the "halls of legislation" may be an indication that the worm is turning again. When the stogy, the pipe, and the "butt" obtain as strong a hold on the senatorial mouths as once had the "quid" and the "plug", the non-smoking rule perhaps will be abolished. Then a later-day Dickens looking on the majesty that is the Senate and beholding each man as a "smoke-vomiting chimney" may well be led to describe the Senate chamber as a "boundless furnace... where a suffocating wind...
...Musa illa vocata non audit; rogata tacet; virumque praeconio altiore dignum sermone pedestri laudandum relinquit. Ergo, utcunque possumus, virum libenter laudamus, qui, cum ingenii sui ope aeris thesaurum ingentem invenisset, Academiam suam divitiarum suarum amplitudine ornavit, iudice me (insusurrare mihi videtur Horatius), iudice me, "non sordidus auctor naturae verique." Quid autem de vivario illo dicam, aequoris Atlantici prope marginem ulteriorem condito, ubi maris immensi miracula minutis-sima ab hoc viro accuratissime examinantur, ubi oceani ipsius e penetralibus profundis rerum naturae veritas ipsa audacter extorquetur? Satis erit hodie de veritate illa dicere quad olim de Romanorum virtute dictum...
...substamus totam vestram epistolam. Quid in natione sunt "Proctores'? Et "Bull-dogs"? Si ullus Professor hic attemptavict mittere canes post nos, calculamus ut ille preciose cito esset pendens do proxima poste lampadum, condamnatus Judice Lynchio, - alia splendida institutione Americana...
...desires to purchase the college hymn book at the reduced rate, should fail to subscribe at the office of the treasurer. - Yale News. Quid? Marquis of Queensberry rules...