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...class of 1798 who "with heavy reel on tipsy heel," staggers out from Boston to be enticed out of his room by grave yard spooks who lead him a wild dance and conclude by tumbling him into the pump trough "as limp as a lump," "while one young Vandal keeps plying the handle." The rhyme suggests in the epilogue, that when he was questioned by "Prexy" Walker next morning...
...John Harvard Mystery" is a blood-curdling tale and proves conclusively who it was that committed the vandal act on the John Harvard statue in 1884. It is only another example of the immense power of imagination which the writer possesses. Some book notices and items make up the rest of the paper...
...Boutney, member of the Institute); Study of the Constitutions of Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy, (Lebon); Parliamentary History of France since 1780, (Messrs, Ribot and Charmes, of the Chamber of Deputies;) Diplomatic History since 1789 (Gorel); View of Contemporary Europe, (Leroy-Beaulieu); The Eastern Question since 1856, (Vandal); International Law, (Brentano); Political Economy, (Cheysson); Finances, (Leon Say); Comparative Administrative Systems, (Precourt); Comparative Commercial Legislation, (Lyon-Caen); Private International Law, (Renault); and a second course in political economy, by M. Dunoyer. Ten other courses in the remaining sections would also be open to the special student. The instructions aims...
Here the same vandal hand I have noticed before has pencilled (in the library's copy of the Lyceum) these words: "Je dorme...
...York Times grows facetions over the matter of college "jokes." They are all, it says, of immemorial age, and are clearly of vandal, not of classic origin. "The college faculties do not yet seem to have perceived the extreme humor of the college joke. What they ought to do is to join in it themselves with great energy and with the help of a few humorous policemen and a witty magistrate. Let them kidnap a few sophomores, just as the latter are returning from the kidnapping of a freshman. Let the kidnapped sophomores be brought before the witty magistrate...