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...officials of lunatic asylums, state prisons, etc., who will be glad of so easy and lucrative a position. This sort of parental restriction which the Bursar has imposed upon us, in dictating whom we are to employ, is foreign to the whole spirit of the College, and is a remnant of that system of petty annoyance which young men hope to have done with when they leave boarding-school...
...reader would here naturally expect some explanation, - what is the tablet? when was it? where was it? why and how did nature write? etc., - but no explanation is given. The writer hurries on, discovers that day is followed by night, stands beside the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, inspects the "remnant of Babylon," has a word for the Mede, another for the Persian, gets himself surrounded by the "tottering walls of the Coliseum," "hears" them crumble, notes, in passing, the destruction of Carthage, and so on, down through Alaric, Greece, the Heruli, and the Caesars, until he is brought up sharp...
Leaveth of all the bounteous feast no remnant when he goes...