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...faultlessly smooth and green, the track carefully rolled; the brilliant costumes of the players are in striking contrast to the emerald lawn on which they stand; the benches are filled with radiant beauty, and everything is deliciously calm and soothing to our artistic feelings. But, while lounging in the shade under the walls of the old Pudding building, we notice that after all something is lacking in the scene. We try to think what it can be, and finally we discover it. Right before us stretching over a hundred yards of ground, the walls of the Jefferson Laboratory raise their...
Still, I must confess that I was shocked at the president's complaint of the security of the present board of overseers, and still more shocked that, in a torchlight procession during the late unpleasantness, Harvard students bore a transparency inscribed, "Average age of Overseers, 95 in the Shade." Now, this is absurd, as absurd as the assertion in one of your journals that your Mr. Evarts "was too old for a senator," and that he "was too old to change his mind." Why, your new senator is Billy Evarts, Evarts, who used to reel off Adams's Latin Grammar...
...preceeding one. Without raising the cost it has been found possible to substitute a neater and more durable cover than the old flexible one; and the change in the color is a noticeable improvement. To the artistic eye the color adopted may not, perhaps, be exactly crimson in shade; still it is very much nearer than before and about as near the mark as such attempts usually come. Complimenting the publisher and compiler for the material appearance, let us look inside and see what new information it contains. First of all, each student interested in the combined growth and prosperity...
...years, the expense of the "plant." The students have for years PROTESTED against certain abuses in the janitor system. But our Parliament, with its advanced liberals and its ultra-conservatisms busy fighting one another, and all the rest absent; and our Overseers, "ninety-five in the shade," calm and tranquil,-how can we expect such as these to regard the wishes of the students, unless those wishes are expressed either in the "Explosive orotund" of gunpowder, or in the swelling choral tones that come from "One equal temper of heroic hearts" bound to be heard or smash something? Now. there...
...them were very good. One bore the legend, "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil," inscribed under portraits of Blaine, Cleveland and Butler. Another was dedicated to "Our Prohibition Candidate, C. J. W." Another announced that the average age of the Board of Overseers was "95 in the shade...