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After a special prayer, The Battle Hymn of the Republic was sung for probably the first time within those ancient walls, followed by God Save the King and My Country 'Tis of Thee...
...system such as this many students would fail, but, to alter the quotation a little: "Tis better to have worked, and failed, Than never to have worked at all." And those successful would be worthy to a degree even greater than some others who have been personally conducted through the modern "savage wood" of learning...
...Bacons Sophocles, but Mills with Henry VII; the Roses York with Glorianna, manna falls from Heaven, Rousseauing down Endymion the Frogs are all Gladstoning Grote Joshua's Farewell Address. The Last Duchess, intoning, Lloyd John's Reform is Billing Swift, while Benton Ruskins Contract. Layamon, Macduff, the Brut! Godzooks! 'Tis well-known for a fact Hannibal Island's Robinhood is easy on the Style. Cowper all Lovelacely full went Reading to Carlyle, Chaucer Canterburies Nietzche with the milk of human wiehes; Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff, Ronsard, all Crabbe the Lowes and fishes...
...playfully torpedoing canal barges in the proposed trans-Alpine waterway, or indulging in a lively game of "pease-porridge-hot" with his former jailers. Either would be a fitting third act, and one at which the Germans could indulge in their infectious laughter to the merriment of everyone. Indeed, 'tis a pretty play, and surpasses even the time-worn spectacle of a cat chasing its tail. The Lieutenant is the only loser; for in all probability his official carfare will be taken from him to furnish the money with which to pay the "reward". But you cannot...
Entertainment.-- Richard Thayer Butterfield '22 of Chestnut Hill; John Tis dale Bradley '22 of Chestnut Hill; Francis Brewster Taussig '22 of Yonkers, N. Y.; Albert Conde Bickford '24 of Pelham, N. Y.; Richard Stuart Bowers '24 of Chestnut Hill...