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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ad nauseam. Those fond of this rather material transport will find plenty to satisfy them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK NOTICES. | 10/10/1879 | See Source »

Illustrations might be multiplied ad infinitum, but they are obvious to every one interested in the subject. The present system leads directly to the selection of "soft electives," and favorite instructors known as "easy markers," - a royal road indeed to high college rank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW SYSTEM OF HONORS. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...weapon of defence, by complaining of the daily papers' silence in regard to the Yale men's reception of Count Johannes. The Princetonian is entirely occupied with the pistol-fight, and contains accounts of the affray, editorial comments, words for the Freshmen, words for the Sophomores, etc., ad infinitum. All that is wanting is a word for Dr. McCosh and the rest of the College Faculty, who should have had the courage to hand over the offenders to the civil courts as soon as the disturbances occurred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...Viri illustres, insolitus ut sum ad publicum lo-quendum, ego propero respondere ad complimentum quod recte reverendus prelaticus mihi fecit, in proponendo meam salutem: et supplica vos credere quod multum gratificatus et flattificatus sum honore tam distincto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...more pardonable, for there is no illusion hanging around him to be spoiled by the vulgar reality of flirting ; . . . . he is just the kind of being you would expect to de scend to the vulgarity of flirting. . . . . But a woman ! as a woman she seems something divine," etc, etc., ad infinitum. The character of the gentleman, who says he is twenty-eight, but who, from strong internal evidence, is barely eighteen, may further be understood from the following remark : "How often have I had a dear foolish girl inflicted upon me, and fairly writhed at the intellectual torture to which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

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