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...strangest-looking exhibit in the collection is a book by Ambroise Firmin Didot, the most famous of a very illustrious family. It is bound in leather and printed on vellum, illustrated with small vignettes. It was printed in 1855 at Paris...
...strangest of the many strange conditions at Harvard is the slack attitude of the ordinary undergraduate toward cribbing in outside written work. Public sentiment condemns cheating in examinations or in the classroom; it does not condemn the copying of reports, theses etc. Men are continually doing such copying to a greater or less degree, and they escape (just as in a noted case of the kind within the last year or two) not only punishment by the authorities, but all censure from friends who would be quick to frown upon cheating in other forms. Public opinion alone can deal with...
...after a deal of fussing it was finally opened, but only to find that no one had authority to light and heat it. Some seventeen members of the Faculty have been visited but no one, not even the athletic committee is able to give any orders. Here is the strangest condition of affairs,-a building, accepted by the corporation, and all ready for use, but over which no one connected with the University has charge. We have spoken of the condition of affairs and now speak of the annoyance which it all is causing. It is foolish to allow this...
...thousand and one instances might be cited, in which, merely as a flight of the imagination, or to serve a more practical Deus-ex-machina end, dreams have been used by authors. Before such an array of wonderful dreams, we cannot but admit that dreams are among the strangest things in a strange universe. We begin to feel as humble as old Socrates, who said that he knew only that he knew nothing. It is from this very fact of our growing humility that I draw the conclusion that we are in advance of the past ages in our learning...
Fresh. No. 1, (running up to F. No, 2.) "Say, Smith, I've just heard the strangest thing! I can't really believe...