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...compliment, a bullet through his hat; and here, I thought, "the old meeting-house, before which the Americans awaited the charge of the British," must have stood. They waited until the British got unpleasantly near, when Putnam and his men, concluding that "discretion was the better part of valor," rode away. To the right of the meeting-house are the stone steps down which Putnam rode. To the left is the road along which the British dragged their cannon after firing a random shot at the retreating hero. This ball, I was informed, fell on the road, and with half...
...drill in public institutions. He does not approve of any of these features of our national life, and, as he has a perfect right to do, states the grounds of his objections. With regard to Decoration Day, he admits that "it commemorates in a tender and touching way the valor and devotion of brave men who are dead"; but objects to the public celebration of the day, because it has a tendency, as he affirms, to keep alive the memory of the late war, "and of all its concomitants...
Well dealt by knights of valor true...
...Cornell Times has been breaking another lance with its usual Quixotic valor. This time the victim is the Syracuse College, which "Methodist `University'" the Times kindly hopes will outlive the winter, and ends in a climax by declaring, with evident pride, that the standard of admission at Cornell is as high as at Vale or Harvard. The Syracuse University Herald suggests, in reply, that the Times is suffering from the jaundice and blighted hopes, and earnestly advises a protracted visit at Dryden Springs Place (which is equal to Yale or Harvard). So far the Herald has the best...
...some Freshmen were indulging in a quadrille. Such an innocent sport is not allowed, however, by the Yale Faculty. It tends directly to worse vices. A step is heard in the entry, and every man is in a trice hidden. After this, we shall never be quiet when the valor of Yale men is assailed...