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...classes are now fully organized. The most important organization, that of the senior class, is as follows: President, Herbert Livingston Satterlee; vice president, Eberhard Lamest Pupke; secretary, Augustus Dickerson Baker; treasurer, George Henry Barnes; historian, Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson. The seniors are trying to determine what sort of an entertainment to give during the winter. The class is about equally divided for a social and a literary entertainment. The outcome of the whole affair will probably be a mixture of the two with not enough of either to make a success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLUMBIA. | 11/21/1882 | See Source »

...friend of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln denies the reports that she is nearly poverty-stricken. She has $55,000, besides her pension of $3,000 per year. He says her mind is completely wrecked, and she is insane on the question of poverty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/2/1882 | See Source »

...Indians. Somewhat later, a member accused the president of the society of having abrogated all the authority in the matter. But our Biblical editor got right up and came away when the orator began to talk about the guiding spirit of faith which supported Isaac in his sacrifice of Abraham. Whither are we drifting? (Since writing the above, a Western exchange has named the precise locality in language which our Biblical editor, being a Unitarian, objects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

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