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A Boom in Foreign Tongues.

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"We recently gave to the world the Latin Address despatched to Harvard by some Cambridge Undergrad. It has been received with unparalleled enthusiasm in America, and the following strictly classical reply was agreed to at a recent "Bump Supper," on the other side of the Atlantic. Its elegant Latinity, like that of its predecessor, speaks for itself: -

Dudi Cantabridgienses,

Consanguinei Chappies!

Hodie recepimus vestram epistolam Latinam de nostro anniversario. Bullyus pro vobis! Multi Bullyi Vestrum Latinum est scumptiosum. Sed nostrum, si non flatteramus nos ipsos, est plus scrumptiosum.

Dies anniverii erat equalis expectationibus. Habebamus, facto, altum antiquum tempus. President erat presens, Clevelandus appellatus, Democraticus vir; et innumeri reportores et interviewores newspaperum. Lowellus - unus, ut tuns immortalis Chuzzlewit dixit, "notissimorum hominum in hac republica" - speechificavit speechum non malum; et Clivarius Wendell Holmesius cepit opportunitatem recitare, longum poema, concoctum pro occasione; sed nenter horum erat in Latino, gratiae ad coelum! Non sumus mors-super Latino bic. Prefer amus linguam Americanam, vel, ut vos prave dicitis, Anglicam.

Non substamus totam vestram epistolam. Quid in natione sunt "Proctores'? Et "Bull-dogs"? Si ullus Professor hic attemptavict mittere canes post nos, calculamus ut ille preciose cito esset pendens do proxima poste lampadum, condamnatus Judice Lynchio, - alia splendida institutione Americana.

Nostrum flumen, sine dubia, est A unum, et porro melius quam Camus vel Isis, in antiquo mundo. Calculamus, facto, Europam est effetan; ut Bretus Hartius - auctor "Pagani Mongoliensis' - dicit, 'Caucasianus (Europiensis) exluditur." Haec est maxima et liberrima et grandiosissima Respublica que unquam existavit, et nostra Universitas potest facile flaggelare omnem creationem. Yoicks! (expresso Anglica).

Ubi, pro instantia, sunt Bossi similes nostris in Via Muri? Ubi "annuli mercatorii," et "anguli porcini," similes Chicagensibus? Vos, infortcuati juvenes, lugelis sub pondere Systemae Feudalis, et AEdificii Dominorum - quamvis probibaliter non noscitis factum. Aqmla Americani, superba volucris, non potest digestare tales res ulla via.

Sed sumus nunc obligati ludere ludum "vilis globi," et portet siccare. Valete

Quindecim Viri Harvardienses. Hubbo Mundi, Cal- Nov. (vel prope).

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