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"A great, a gifted, but a turbid son] Struggled and chafed within that Btriplin bn 11 Wood: "This waa a soldier ev'n to Cato's wish. Shak 1 Fisher: -\\fve rills of oily eloquence in -oft Meanders lubricate the course they tal .Moles: "You'll find a difference PREVAILING STYLES. Between the promise of his greener days 1 And these he manow.' Shaksp 11 Bail . Frazer: "We live in deed, not years. A convenient costume for attending midnight fires is Xesbif: "There was a laughing devil in his sneer.11 Composed of pantaloons SanS suspenders, a prep coat buttoned over the robe de nuit% and shoes unbuttoned over long, Beacham: "lie knows what's what." 11 Wheeler: "God Almighty's gentleman. Drydi flesh-colored hose. ll Keene: He'fl tough, man. tough, is Eddie, During the rly pari of the year, prep caps were so Tough, and de-vilish sly." Dickens, tylisb an article of head gear, that new students, who failed Terbush: "None but himself can In- his parallel." to wear them to church, were thought] king in self respect. — lit 'hi. Their popularity has sensibly waned, but a revival of the 'lark. T. A.: "One may smile, and smile, and be a villain." fashion is predicted for another year.

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Tlir line orator speaks from within; he speaks words of wonderful meaning; he pauses, a breathless hush like the dreadful calm in nature ere the whirlwind shall break forth, in its fury, falls upon the vast assembly; (lien, as the? rejoicing of mighty waters, comes the tempest of applause. But in (In- hush or flic tumultous applause is not (lie greatest reward of the true orator, but in the consciousness that through I he power he wields, once more in the hearts of his auditors, truth has triumphed over error. Despise not then the power of oratory, through that "Eloquence that charms and burns, Startles, nootliH Mini wins by turns" — victories have been won that have exerted a mightier influence upon the history of nations than the most, sanguinary conflicts.

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Country friends of those male students, who spend their ummer v dim in the rural regions, are alw 9 pleased to • their guests al that m of the 3 r in brown overalls ornamented with gu f. blue hickory shirts cut bias, and a plain stri hat gored.

Ellars, Miss: illiland: Stebbins: Vennuni:

"Her eyes are homes of silenl thought.

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"His bark is worse than his bite."' "Distilled damnation." Hull. "The very pink ^\' perfection."

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