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Canoeing is the particular vanity of the Cambridge girl. She had a thousand times rather be upset trying to paddle her own canoe in Charles river than to go through the Harvard "Annex" with all the honors. - Beacon...
...present time. Hence the excellent facilities furnished by its well-appointed chemical and physical laboratories - facilities which will be greatly increased when there shall have been paid into its treasury - and it is confidently expected that this will soon be done - the munificent 'Wilson bequest' of one hundred thousand dollars to be appropriated to the building up of the department of the physical sciences...
Their arrival is hailed by a yell from a thousand throats, and the plaudits of the fair ones in the balconies. On they come, till they are opposite the senior fence; "Halt," cries their leader, and the column comes to a rest. Then the seniors rise, and at the command of their chief give three hearty cheers for '88, who respond by three equally strong ones for '85. Acknowledging this courtesy, '85 gives three more cheers for the freshmen, who doff their hats and move on to the junior fence, where the same scenes are repeated. As they round...
...society, however meritorious, can subsist upon itself. The Co-operative Society is no exception. The great benefits of the society are so well recognized that it is a matter of universal surprise that its members are not more numerous. Only four hundred and fifty men have signed. A thousand, at least, should have done so at the very opening of the college year. The earlier a student joins the society the better able will he be to meet the desperate onset of the non-affiliated who soon will settle down about him into a time-honored position of seige...
...than as historian of America. It supposes that Thiers is the best administrator, because Thiers writes the best history. Now the writers on the other side of the water may determine this as they choose. We should remember here, that in our affairs, where government is divided into a thousand bureaux, and never centralized, the people-and no one class of the people-have shown in a thousand exigencies that they know what they are about, and how their business will be best done. As Mr. Garfield puts it, all the people is wiser than is any single...