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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Well, yes, I have yet to hear of anything in these parts that can keep us in sight," I said very modestly...
...same language; and one boy said it was Ponca, and meant that Mr. Wendell Parnell would discuss the Irish question in Holden basement. Another said it had just come over from Assos, and was a Christmas card designed by Agamemnon. But whatever it was, my aunt swooned at the sight and was carried to the college hospital, where, surrounded by luxury and a circle of happy friends, she died...
...preserves all unwritten paper which improvident students leave attached to their petitions. The happiest results are flowing from this policy. It is rumored that $2.14 was saved last year by the refusal to furnish students with copies of the examination programmes. To whom was it not an inspiring sight when, last June, a thousand students gathered about the solitary Tabular View on University's bulletin board? The crowning stroke of genius is, however, still to come. The administration have most ingeniously spread the report abroad that they are opposed to the blowing up of trees. As a natural consequence...
...whole place is sparsely covered with noble trees, individualized into a more gigantic beauty than that of their kinsmen in the forest. In the fairest of the valleys, next the sea, protected on the north and west by gently sloping yet lofty hills, lies the village, a goodly sight to a weary traveller. Truly it is beautiful in the Land of the Apes...
...training don't pay. To put it concretely, "It ain't what it's cracked up to be." Why, look at me. I've trained! - rowed, base-balled, foot-balled; and what good's it done me? None! No sir, none! But I've grown a deuced sight wiser than I ever was before. I've learned a secret. I've learned why it did me no good; why it does no one any good; and why so many fools, in spite of its uselessness, still train. And now I 'm going to give away to you this momentous secret...