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dilectissime,’ he wickedly replied with three bows of such comic gravity that I almost gave way to unbecoming laughter.
Not long before this he had published his paper on the Greek goddesses.
I therefore assigned as his theme the problem, ‘How to sacrifice an Irish bull to a Greek goddess.’
Colonel Waring, the wellknown engineer, being at that time in charge of a valuable farm in the neighborhood, was invited to discuss ‘Social small potatoes; how to enlarge the eyes.’
An essay on rhinosophy was given by
Fanny Fern, the which I, chalk in hand, illustrated on the blackboard by the following equation—
Nose + nose + nose = proboscis
Nose — nose — nose = snub.
A class was called upon for recitations from
Mother Goose in seven different languages.
At the head of this
Professor Goodwin, then and now of
Harvard, honored us with a Greek version of ‘The Man in the
Moon.’
A recent Harvard graduate recited the following:—
Heu!
iter didulum,
Felis cum fidulum,
Vacca transiluit lunam,
Caniculus ridet
Quum talem videt,
Et dish ambulavit cum spoonam.
The question being asked whether this last line was in strict accordance with grammar, the