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...eminent Americans, and, as it was near luncheon time, we thought we would wait to see whether the American student played as good a knife and fork as our own Cambridge boys at home; and how the two groups compared as respects their physical development. It is but a tame business for an onlooker to watch a student in his rooms dipping his beak into the Pierian spring and then throwing his head back, like a bird, to let the learning get down - because the onlooker can make little of the observation. But when the same student leaves his tomes...
Messrs. Pendleton and Page were the contestants in the second drawing of the Middle-weight Sparring. The first round was rather tame, no good work being done by either party. In the second round, Pendleton drew the first blood by an adroit cross counter. The third round was more exciting, but unskilful. The second drawing was won by Page...
...That news is very scarce at this period of the college year in Hanover, no one, who has inhabited the place for a winter, can reasonably doubt. In fact, although Hanover is a splendid place in summer, we shall have to admit that in winter it is rather tame, to say the least. The snow has been at work for the last week, taking its day off and on, regularly, so that, by this time, the place has begun to exhibit its usual winter aspect, thus fulfilling the prophecy of the "oldest inhabitant" that Hanover never gets left in winter...
...criminal pranks, those promising candidates for collegiate honors greased the rails of the nearest railroad, causing much annoyance to the authorities. The next thing we expect to hear of the young men is that they have taken to train wrecking for sport. Ordinary methods of amusement are becoming too tame, it seems, at Princeton...
...secret of the "curve system" is out. It is done with a thermometer, a metronome, a piece of string with knots in it, and a tame canary-bird...