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...wind is reported to have blown a good deal of coal out of the various bins in the basements of Stoughton and Hollis. Owners are advised to put locks on the doors of their coal bins. Yale locks are the best, for the wind may have some combination. Verbum Sap...
...defeat. We have not won our political battles, we have not carried our main points, we have not stopped our adversaries' advance, we have not marched victoriously with the modern world; but we have told silently upon the mind of the country, we have prepared currents of feeling which sap our adversaries' position when it seems gained, we have kept up our communications with the future." Such has been the story of Harvard's past; what of her future...
...inactive criticism, in the nature of a chronic and irremediable disease that sees the world only through jaundiced eyes, and if a college produce this culture, it is unutterably a bad thing that you should found such a college and possess such a culture. If your college is to sap the vitality of men, to wither their brains by spring-forcing, to make them know so much that they avail nothing, to send forth graduates who are a perpetual sneer at their less learned betters, then let us have no colleges. But are we thus to slap civilization...
...hates women more bitterly and loves men, en masse, more tenderly than a grass widow. Verbum sap...
...Stop!" said I, "are you ashamed, Mr. Sap, to be seen here...