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...untried by shocks of age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEFORE THE FIRE. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

...difficult to see why the Library should be closed at all Sundays, unless for the lack of means to pay for attendants, but this, like several other recent improvements, is a step in advance, and a proof that Harvard College cannot afford to be bigoted in this liberal-minded age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

...University Crew has been chosen. They are as follows: J. B. Collins, bow; N. T. Guernsey, No. 2; L. K. Hull, No. 3; P. C. Fuller, No. 4; F. W. Rogers, No. 5; S. B. Rogers (Captain) No. 6; C. B. Storrs, No. 7; H. T. Folsom, stroke. Average age is 21.3; height, 6 feet; weight, 189 1/3 pounds, the heaviest crew Yale has had for several years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

PERHAPS you saw him with me in the Yard last week, - a long, thin man dressed in black, with a capacious white felt hat resting soberly on his straight black hair, smooth face, and age anywhere from forty-five to sixty? No, you did n't see him? Well, he looked every inch (and he is some seventy-seven inches high) exactly what he is, the leading deacon of the Smithfield Centre Orthodox Church; one of the bluest of the blue, and a most unrelenting enemy of card-playing, horse-racing, dancing, and the theatre. I trembled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY UNCLE LUTHER. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

...been a member of the Freshman class here. The chief interest in this case centred around the heart, which the surgeons took especial care to dissect. On cutting away the pericardium, the aorta was found to wear a greenish hue, attributable, I was told, to the tender age of the subject. One lobe was slightly toughened, and I noticed that this hardness was gradually spreading over the whole organ. This symptom, the doctors said, always appears after doses of beer at Carl's and theatre-parties, the heart of the young being very impressionable. On cutting further, streaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO SURGICAL OPERATIONS. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »