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...parties in the literary department, to one of which almost every man there belongs. One party, the oldest, publishes the Chronicle; the other, at first started in self defence but now the dominant, controls the Argonaut. Many men take both papers, but the power behind the thorne or the sanctum is the party which holds the most stock...
...heart still brimming over with laughter and with tears, our brain still teeming with - no! we will not believe them the creatures of imagination. Dear Tom! sweet Ellen! brave, great-hearted John Breese! life seems nobler from contact with you - we cannot write soberly of it. Here in this sanctum of sobriety, here in strait-faced, solemn 'Book Notices' we propose three rousing cheers for Tom Hammersmith! Three cheers more for Mark Sibley Severance, chronicler! Yes, and three more for 'Fair Harvard!' 'May they live long and prosper!'" Well done, Rip Van Winkle...
...days ago while kicking around under the sanctum desk for the subject of an editorial, the waste-basket was accidentally overturned. The exchange editor reached over among the litter and drew out some MSS. which, after some consideration and pleading on his part, we have decided to present to the public. Communications were very prevalent of course. The first one we happened to pick out read as follows...
...other notices given besides, that are often of considerable importance. The main official bulletins are to be found usually in the glass cases in the south entry of University and in Sever, and general reliance is placed in the former because it is the locality of the official sanctum of the faculty, and most convenient for general daily reference. But we often unexpectedly find a notice anywhere else, and frequently but one copy posted, which the instructor puts in the place that happens to be convenient to him as he passes along. And again, there is often but little notice...
...Cornell Era speaks of our sanctum as "the very centre of culture." Prosit...