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...class to compete in writing the words for the Class Song. Copies must be handed to the committee or the chorister before May 1. The music selected requires eight lines to a stanza, and the number of stanzas is usually three. The following will serve as a specimen of the metre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/19/1880 | See Source »

...discovers, if you have six toes, the bond of kinship between you and extinct ichthyosauri. If a linguist, he is for ever overwhelming you with dead roots, and the hidden beauties of a language three thousand years nearer Adam than your own. In a word, in whatever phase this specimen may appear, he is riding a hobby-horse. The disagreeable part of it is, that he wants every one to ride his hobby, and none other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

...various spellings of the name borne by our Chinese professor could be collected, they would form a large and extensive volume; the following specimen is from the College Argus: "Prof. Ko Kun Hun receives a salary of $200 per month. He has seven little ko-ku-nuts in his family...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY LADY'S NAME. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

...last specimen is a portion of a Syllabus in a History Course, with a few of the answers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...Editors of the Crimson submit a few specimen examination-papers (or, as our Playful Editor calls them, ex-animation papers), which it is hoped will convey to outsiders an idea, though an inadequate one, of our sufferings during the past two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIMEN BRICKS. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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