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...especially such a college, remote from the great centres, crippled in finances, troubled by internal discord, decreasing in class attendance, suffering from the keen competition of wealthy sister colleges, can afford to alienate any considerable body of her alumni and friends, from whom alone aid must come to replenish her treasury and to keep up her numbers; and yet, if we are not mistaken, the present policy in retaining President Bartlett is gradually bringing on these results. It is not alone in Boston, Springfield, Manchester and New York city that expressions of this nature are heard among her alumni...
...just as these animals are taken advantage of most easily at feeding-time, so may man be most easily seen and studied, when, forgetting his occupations, his loves and hates, he assembles at the hour when mind and body crave repose, and proceeds, in various and unstudied ways, to replenish exhausted resources, mental or physical. Pliny says, somewhere, of the Greeks, that it is their distinctive quality to hide nothing, and this quality, it is thought, is what gave the Greeks that "grand simplicity," which makes them, for all time, masters in the realm...
...spirit within. Famous for his strange and dreadful weapons which effected their purpose with unerring precision and unvarying success, he was an antagonist whom the bravest heart might fear to meet in mortal combat. Armed with a "Mariotte's bottle," and carrying a flask of spirits with which to replenish his levels, he quailed not even before an enemy that he saw double. Such was the band of warriors selected by Prince Presistrardin to uphold the cause of the Faculty. And now the keeper of the tourney, who bore on his shield the proud motto "Ike Dean"* summoned the herald...