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...Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant." A fifth bore on one side two apple trees, a man standing beneath, and in the second scene the apple which hung prominent from the tree is gone. These touching scenes are labeled respectively 'Malum Prohibitum" and "Malum in Se." On the reverse of this ingenious transparency was a silhouette of a gentleman embracing a girl, with the two mottoes, "Inter armas leges et silentes," and "No law forbids the associated press...
...order to "support" the home team on a distant field. In the case of the boat races, exhortation is necessary, but the result is the same. A greater or less number of students abandon their proper pursuits in search of excitement which is unwholesome per se, and add to their car fares and hotel bills the price of amusement, licit or illicit, during the nights they spend in a strange city away from their usual resources and their usual restraints. That in many cases the "visiting student's" purse is further depleted by wagers lost on the game in question...
...while correcting the French paper set for the Harvard admission examinations last June. The 500 or more papers which were written contained every variety of mistake, but there were two sentences which were the special stumbling-ground. "La pauvre femme, sentent la raison de son mari, no bougea et se contenta d'ecarter un peu son rideau pour voir sortir, etc., gave rise to "fearing for the reason of her husband," and "appreciating the reason of his marriage," and the words "ecarter un peu son rideau" gave large opportunities to the guessers. Among the many mistranslations of these five words...
...second sentence was as follows: "Le pauvre garcon . . . se tournaitet retournait sur son coussin, envoyant de gros soupirs et gemissant sans pouvoir se reviellier." Naturally, in several instances, the poor boy was "reflecting about his cousin," but the prize for ingenuity goes in this translation of the italicized words: "dreaming of great suppers, and groaning without being able to relieve himself...
...electric light is admittedly of better quality per se than gas, so that in the first case the college is working in behalf of the gas companies, and in the second, in behalf of the students. And if, as is probable, the college does-not obtain as much as five per cent. on their investments, there would be an actual profit in the matter...