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...soldier's habit, shield, helmet and banner all welded in bronze forms. On the opposite side of the column is a similar symbol composed of bronze forms. On the opposite side of the column is a similar symbol composed of bronze books, an inkwell and quill, lamp, sealing wax and scroll, representing the scholar...
From time to time during the early season all of us wax critical of the men who are playing in the various positions and of the combination which they form. It is now time for these criticisms to be laid aside. Indeed, it is almost certain that they have been, by this time, discounted to a great extent in favor of the strong points. The mass meeting now comes to gather up the various threads of approval and confidence and weave them into one force of enthusiasm. This enthusiasm must be sanctioned by the intelligent, critical approval which has been...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "A Machine for Cutting the Wax Plates used in Reconstructing Microscopic Objects," Professor Mark. "Squamosal Bones," Professor J. S. Kingsley, of Tufts College. Room 1, fifth floor...
Doubles--At 4.00 -- Kendall and Penhallow vs. Putnam and Rotch; Mason and George vs. Leaycraft and Weather-wax; Laverack and Leonard vs. Beaman and Goodrich...
...some filthy nothing scrawled on the walls of a brothel by some Pompeian idler. And it is certainly true that the material of thought reacts upon thought itself. Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked in a thinly shaven vocabulary, and Phidias, had he worked in wax, only a more inspired Mrs. Jarley. A man is known, says the proverb, by the company he keeps, and not only so, but made by it. Milton makes his fallen angels grow small to enter the infernal council room, but the soul, which God meant to be the spacious chamber...