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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Mile after mile I scrambled or crawled in the rain through bushes and briars without "getting a bite." I fell into the brook - three feet of muddy water - thereby spoiling my temper and my trousers. I drew out a damp cigarette to take refuge in smoke and philosophy; but "matches are made in Heaven," and I was no farther than purgatory, so I did not smoke just then. On the road I found a small snub-nosed boy with his basket full of fine trout. The little wretch had fished the brook just a hundred yards ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PISCATORIAL. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

STUDENTS entering college, or returning from vacation, are requested to leave their address - name of building or street, and number of room - at the Post-Office, so that their letters can be delivered without delay...

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

...even in cases where Honorable Mention is obtained, it is just to have faithful work in one special course rewarded. If a student takes, for example, Political Economy for the Senior year, his work in it is absolutely unnoticed and unrewarded. This is wholly wrong; it leaves the indolent without any hope of reward to stimulate them, and the hard-working without any notice of their industry. Many graduates can testify how much a good position in various courses on the Commencement programme was esteemed and worked for, and how many Seniors, for the first time, did work, and realized...

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

...crew besides; which has seven members on the foot-ball team; and whose representatives on the Nine are the last that can be said to have profited by the good training of former years, - not to mention the champion single-sculler and several prominent athletes, - this class cannot depart without leaving a large vacancy behind it. Now, however, while the College is still fresh with the memory of these achievements, is the time to look forward, as well as to look back, and to consider how we may equal, if not surpass, the records that '79 has written. The importance...

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

...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 »

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