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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Phillipian is pervaded by common-sense. The profits of the paper for the past year have been devoted to putting a stained-glass window into the Great Hall of Phillips Academy. Here is an example for college papers to follow, - when they make money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

...classes of '44 and '57 have set a good example in placing stained-glass windows in Memorial Hall, and their liberality deserves the gratitude of the College. A complete series of such windows would materially increase the beauty of the Hall, and surely there can be found no more practicable way of securing such a series of windows than for these to be the gifts of the older classes of graduates. There would, too, be a peculiar significance in having memorial windows. We hope, however, that the tone of the windows that may follow will be somewhat more cheerful. Would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

After you have seen him and laid him out, * all that remains for you is pleasant and profitable. You had better go to that amusing apothecary, Hubbard, whose droll advertisements you have read in the Lampoon, and take a glass of plain soda-water; it is more exciting than milk, and not so strong as ginger ale, and you may take it without fear of inconvenience. If you have any practice in such things, you may take a mild cigarette (those used for catarrh are very innocent), and it may induce the careless outsider to take you for a Sophomore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO EMBRYO FRESHMEN. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...stained-glass windows given by the class of 1857 are now being put up in Memorial. On one is Epaminondas, and underneath, the Spartan mother giving the shield to her son. On the other is Sir Philip Sidney, and beneath, the scene at the battle of Zutphen, where that knight gives the wounded soldier his own cup of water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...stuck by him. The Annuals were half over; and, perhaps, as a Sophomore, he might have seen the error of his ways, and checked his infernal propensity. One unlucky afternoon he was hard at work in the laboratory, where suddenly, alas! an explosion, a sound of breaking glass - the Freshman class, O where was it? Ask of the fulminating silver that far around with fragments strews the new Gymnasium. Examinations were postponed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SAD TALE OF THE CLASS OF 19-. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

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