Feed him on gruel during the week and on Sunday he will give you gruel.

What is called the "parson's nose" in a turkey or fowl is an allegory setting forth that in many communities the minister comes out behind.
Eight hundred or a thousand dollars for a minister is only a slow way of killing him, and is the worst style of homicide.

Why do not the trustees and elders take a mallet or an axe, and with one blow put him out of his misery?
The damage begins in the college boarding house.

The theological student has generally small means, and he must go to a cheap boarding house.

A frail piece of sausage trying to swim across a river of gravy on the breakfast plate, but drowned at last, "the linked sweetness long drawn out" of flies in the molasses cup, the gristle of a tough ox, and measly biscuit, and buckwheat cakes tough as the cook's apron, and old peas in which the bugs lost their life before they had time to escape from the saucepan, and stale cucumbers cut up into small slices of cholera morbus,--are the provender out of which we are trying at Princeton and Yale and New Brunswick to make sons of thunder.