Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Owing to an unfortunate mistake in the printers or lithographers, the lines were restored to the Lampoon in the old style. The editors are sorry for the mistake, and say it shall not happen again...
...latter causes must be attributed the dash and vigor of his fighting. But this attribute did not exist alone. Nor can one say that the southern volunteer did not possess perseverance and patience under hardship. The long marches, short battles and wonderful retreats showed his abilities in this line in Stonewall Jackson's brilliant campaigns...
...Studd, who is to speak in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening, we would say that we believe that what he will have to present will be exceedingly interesting to college men, and at least will command their hearty respect. Mr. Studd has visited Yale and Cornell and other colleges, and the papers from those colleges speak even enthusiastically of him. He is an Englishman, and was educated at Eton and Cambridge (class of '83), so that his sympathies with college students are naturally very strong. As captain of the Cambridge University Cricket Eleven, he won great distinction in athletics. "A typical...
...gentleman himself, prominent in athletics, and popular in his class, - a very favorable specimen of what outsiders would call the representative Harvard type. If such a one as he could seriously speak of a "nice fellow" as cheating, in spite of your recent editorials, I should say public opinion was very far from sound...
...sober thought. The lecture which was given last year under the auspices of the Philosophical Club, proved this most conclusively by the intense interest which it aroused in the subject discussed. A lecture on the present state of Harvard undergraduate thought, for example, even if not feasible, would, to say the least, excite interest. But there are so many subjects in philosophy which at present involve discussion, that the range of possible and interesting discourses is almost unlimited. We are aware that mention has already been made of this matter, but we are sorry to see that little interest...