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...dear sir, I suppose things were very different when you were in College (I never knew a graduate who didn't say so). I close now, hoping in reply you will give me a confession on your side of how Harvard was thirty years ago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SENIOR'S CONFESSION. | 11/26/1880 | See Source »

...good feeling existing between McGill College and Harvard could not have been more happily exemplified than by the handsome manner in which the representatives of the latter University were entertained, when in Montreal only a short time ago, by those of the former. Every thing possible was done for their entertainment and comfort, and we can only hope that the time is not far distant when the McGill men will visit Harvard, and give us an opportunity to return their courtesy and civility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

...stood a house that had evidently drifted down, ages ago, with the glacier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DIZZY DAY. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

...game much in vogue a hundred years ago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SKELETON IN KNICKERBOCKERS. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

...appearing to join with them, so he gets out of it in this way: he is a very good mimic, and can pretend to be intoxicated so that one could hardly tell he was not so. That's the way he managed at a club dinner a little while ago." We exchanged glances, for we remembered having had to carry him home that night. But his mother went on: "He was perfectly sober, though every one thought him not so at all. He told me so himself, and I would always trust" - Dick's face had been growing more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PER TELEPHONEM. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »