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...because we must realize that their methods have been put to a test far beyond precedent; and however regretable, it is perhaps not surprising that they should have found themselves overpowered in consequence. But the principle which gives graduates the preference over undergraduates in the right to seats seems tome both unfair and impolitic, and I for one should be glad to see it changed hereafter. The game is primarily an undergraduates' affair. We rely upon them to make up the team, and the team and its managers rely mainly upon them for the enthusiasm which helps to success...
...cannot be appropriated; dominion over the seas can exist only as to those portions capable or permanent possession from the shore. See all the leading authorities on Int Law.- e.g., Abdy's Kent, L. 97; Halleck I., ch. 6 13; Wildman, I., 70; Marters, 40 (ed. 1864); Huntefenille, Tome I., tit. i., ch. 3 S 1; Kluber, 130 (ed. 1861); Ortolor I., 145; Baron de Cussey I., tit. 2, SS40.41; Heffter...
...they are once more, riding through these same streets, with the same trappings, the same armor, the same music and, in the case of historical personages, almost the same features. Professor Jacob Mycillus goes by in a great car, seated at his old oaken desk and reading his ponderous tome as quietly and attentively as he did three hundred years ago; and Melancthon, with his robes about him, is expounding some knotty point of doctrine to the grave monk beside him. The end of the sixteenth century finds the gay court at its gayest. There are splendid cars with Ceres...
...library yesterday, a freshman looking over some books in the French department was heard to remark to a friend, "How long that fellow Tome must have been in writing all these books...
...want of a true model, the sculptor has so far moulded the bronze figure of John Harvard. It shows us a young scholar in the academic garb of his time, gently touched by the sickness which was undermining his miniature life. He rests his hand on the open tome between his knees, and gazes for a moment into the future, so dim, so uncertain, yet so full of promise, of promise which has been more than realized. At the close of the address, after Dr. Ellis was long and loudly applauded, the Glee Club sang another Latin glee and president...