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The game with the Boston Club was quite long, requiring about thirty-five moves to decide it against Harvard.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/9/1875 | See Source »

"Debates are held once a week, - the debating-hall seating about 400. The subjects are as varied as possible, and constant efforts are made to prevent the debates becoming purely political. Social questions are not unfrequently discussed, whilst there are, occasionally, pure scientific or literary debates. There is no doubt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH SOCIETIES. | 4/9/1875 | See Source »

The community having become so refined, the suggestive yet uneuphonious name of the village grated against our finer sensibilities. By a unanimous vote, the name was changed to "Polecat's

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRICKET. | 3/26/1875 | See Source »

I was a sort of infant prodigy in the mustache business, and remember very well how my mother once sent me, when a little boy, from the dining-room back to my bedroom, to wash my upper lip. She is near-sighted, but discovered her mistake afterwards. I began soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY MUSTACHE. | 3/26/1875 | See Source »

ISAAC BOWEN BARKER, A. M., Tutor in German, died in his room in Little's Block at an early hour on the morning of last Monday. He had been suffering from a severe cold for several weeks, - a cold so severe, indeed, that he had been advised by the President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/26/1875 | See Source »