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...glad of it; you have taken quite a load off my mind, for I feared that you were in danger of dismissal. Well, Fred, I won't detain you longer, your sisters are dying to know all about college; but before you go, here's a specimen of specie payments from me as a Detur for your good work in Latin and Greek...
...large in offering the victors a public welcome on their return; but the language in which their preamble was couched was such a marked instance of "slopping over" that the most ardent sympathizers with the blue and white were disgusted. One of the three "whereases" will serve as a specimen...
Amherst. - The College has received a perfect specimen of the Coney from Natal, Africa...
...WONDER if it ever occurred to any one to make a careful study of the ordinary Irishman, the kind who builds fires for his living. The specimen with which I have daily intercourse would furnish a careful student of human nature with a fund of amusement and instruction that would be inexhaustible. I ask you, my reader, to picture to yourself a man whose sole care in life, as far as it appears, is the burden of lighting sundry fires and cleaning various boots. It would seem as if this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded...
...class. Gentle Freshman, be not afraid of the examiner, for he is not as terrible as he looks. You know that you will not be called up in your Greek to-day, for it was only yesterday that you made such frightful work of it. Brown, Smith, and Jones - specimen bricks, pride of the instructor's heart, who have read up all their Grote - will be the unlucky ones...