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...These in time are sure to become more and more easy to pass, and the barrier is likely to be overridden. Coffee herries, mangoes, alligator pears from Hawaii are rigidly excluded from entrance to the continental U. S.-for fear of importing the Mediterranean fruit fly. Seme Californians wish that Jappo-Americans from Hawaii could be excluded in the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Whites, Greens?Yellows | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...soon finds his afternoons and evenings croweded with engagements. If he goes into society in Cambridge or Boston his engagements are doubled or trebled throughout the winter, and he finds his partie and club meetings occurring three or four on an evening. Some of his engagements must in(?) and seme of his duties must be shirked Perhaps the first thing that suffers is eystematic study. It is not long before some of the smaller or less interesting societies begin to feel the pressure, and finally the largest and most popular societies are also affected. We hear of meeting after meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/17/1890 | See Source »

July 17, 1873. Seme course.- Yale, 16.59; Wesleyan, 17.01; Harvard, 17.11; Dartmouth, 17.27 1-2; Amherst, 17.32; Columbia, 17.53 1-4; Bowdoin, 18.07 3-4; Agricultural, 18.19 1-2; Cornell, 18.24; Trinity, 18.42; Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intercollegiate Boat Races. | 6/20/1888 | See Source »

...their "minds with but a shingle thought." Never before in the history of fraternity life has such a shingle been exposed to public view. Its appearance marks a new era in college decorative art. Considered from the standpoint of heraldry the new shingle is grand. On a field (blanc), seme with cuspidores (avgent), is displayed a what-is-it (purpure). This has as supporters two schooners, remplis. Above appears the crest, - a casque (argent), which seems to have some connection with the schooners beneath. Below the main device is found a chestnut (brun), which is bound with chains, evidently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/18/1886 | See Source »

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