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Among the most curious of the fantastic celebrations, burials and burnings which college undergraduates are wont to disport themselves with after the completion of some dreaded course in the curriculum, none is more worthy of notice than the "Burial of Legendre" which the Columbia sophomores perform annually with great pomp and circumstance. Not one of the least peculiar circumstances connected with the burial is the fact that it takes place in the great city of New York amid the bustle and hurry of Metropolitan life, while the people look on and wonder at the strange doings of the jolly...
PARK THEATRE.-"A Woman's Wont" and "The Country Girl" Performance...
Many of our students before entering college, have been accustomed to take a large amount of exercise in rowing. That is to say, they have been wont to go upon the water in some ordinary Whitehall or lapstreak boat for an afternoon's pull, which gave them not only splendid exercise, but also a great amount of pleasure. When these men enter college, some, of course, obtain seats in their class boats, but the great majority are obliged to forego their favorite sport until the summer vacation, merely from the lack of opportunity for exercise afforded by our present boating...
...personal appearance and habits, was a veritable type of the antique. Gray and hirsute, his dark complexion and piercing eyes gave him a weird aspect, and he passed his days and nights in one corner of a college dormitory in lone communion with the spiders which he was wont to feed and cherish, and the tomes in which the lore of old Hellas was entombed, many of whose graces and beauties were visible to no eye within the academic shades as they were to his. Reserved and uncommunicative as a recluse, he had a few chosen friends with whom...
...Were wont to make us tremble as we gazed...