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Last week idlers in Florida beheld what is now known as "a protracted assassination." The weapon: a smooth steel club with a crook in it and a wooden haft. The assassin: a swart, puss-footed gentleman with a debonair smile, immaculate raiment and merciless accuracy of eye and wrist. He dealt his blows delicately, at infrequent intervals, seeming to select moments when he could most bitterly annoy his prey. His prey: a chunky, blond youth with a grim but cheerful smile...
Charles Chauncy, second president of the College holding office from 1654 to 1671, presents his "many grievances and temptations" before the General Court, stating "that his salary was not sufficient for the comfortable supply of his family with necessary food and raiment; that provision for the President was not suitable, being without land to keep either a horse or a cow upon, or habitation to be dry or warm in; whereas, in English University, the President is allowed diet, as well as stepend, and other necessary provisions, according to his wants...
...stuff for a person of 18 to attempt in a first novel. Yet, for all her stock phrases, young Miss Keating has more than a smattering of stage lore, and accomplishes her broad effect with the naive directness of one to whom the ancient tatters of passion are shining raiment bright...
Oxford was "down." The summer vacation had begun. "Schools" (exams) were over. Yet Oxford, last week, was crowded with formidable dowagers, jovial "guvnors," dainty débutantes in the joiliest of raiment and under the absurdest of parasols, all being escorted by be-flanneled undergraduates. "Commem" (Commemoration) Week had started seven days of endless pleasure. Up the "High," down the "Broad," along the "Corn" strolled British society. Every available lodging was taken. No money could buy or hire a punt, for they were already thick upon the water of the Isis...
Whatever the complaints about Cambridge weather, it cannot be accused of monotony. A change from tropical, blazing heat to the usual coolness of a New England spring is no slight feat for a single afternoon. And it has driven the persecuted Cantabrigians to acrobatic changes of raiment; at one moment, clothes as close to nothingness as decorum permitted; an hour later sweaters and topcoats had recovered their usual prestige as necessities in combating the climate. Yesterday, collapses, faintings under the relentless torridity; tomorrow, beggars will probably be found frozen on the streets...