This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...is right, sir, we oft stay up all night, sir, A-getting our education down at Old Nassau. When first I went to Princeton, just because they said 'twas right, Who stole the clapper from the Old North bell? According to the prophet curfew didn't ring that night, And never a ding dang the Old North bell. They said that I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...is right, sir, we oft stay up all night, sir, A-getting our education down at Old Nassau. When first I went to Princeton, just because they said 'twas right, Who stole the clapper from the Old North bell? According to the prophet curfew didn't ring that night, And never a ding dang the Old North bell. They said that I was tender, so I got as tough as tripe, They said that I was green, so I began to smoke a pipe, And by my second season I was very, very ripe, Ding-dong, ding!" says the Old North bell. For you learn a Jot at Princeton, at Princeton, at Princeton, Instructed by Minerva, that divine, didactic squaw; You learn with Greek to grapple and how to cut your chapel, For liberal education blooms at Old Nassau. It is unnecessary to say that Ferdinand never came to any good end. He graduated and went from bad to worse. Finally he was caught conspiring with the Beet Sugar Trust and was sentenced to serve a life-term in the Senate. DIVERSITY 1 OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: A Self-Made Antique THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ACK in the early Nineties the Puritan Fathers of Chicago built a World's Fair and blessed it with a Midway Plaisance. "Artistic! Alluring! Magnificent! Educational!" So said the artistic three-sheet literature which heralded it abroad; and the humble seekers after Truth hearkened unto the words of promise and made pilgrimage to Chicago to learn at the feet of Fatima, the Oriental Writher, Mademoiselle Celeste, Queen of the Lions, and the distinguished Professor Bosko, famous among scientists because he ate 'em alive. Professor John D. Rockefeller did not own the World's Fair, because there were several strips of earth which he had not then acquired. But out on a three-acre lot, close to the educational Midway, the cornerstone of...
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a very faint stain (more pronounced in the scan than it appears). College hijinks illustrated in very attractive arts and crafts style by M.L. Blumenthal with vignettes on every page. Chapters concentrate on individual schools: Harvard, Vassar, Princeton, University of Chicago, Yale, and West Point. A lovely little book, and rare in jacket.