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Yale wishes to get rid of the "staring board fence" around its campus and substitute a barb wire and a hedge. Is that because Harvard is desirous of a board fence around its campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/19/1883 | See Source »

...gentleman connected with the New York Herald recently told a friend that there were constantly ten or fifteen Yale graduates "hanging around" the Tribune office looking for a position on that paper. College graduates do not seem to be in demand on the metropolitan press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/17/1883 | See Source »

...keep aching arms and numb fingers from relaxing their hold on the rope. I hope that I shall never again suffer the agony of those few moments. They seemed hours. Once, I thought I should have to give in; but I looked down at little Elsie, who was twined around me, with her quivering hands clasped about my neck; and the look of terrible suffering in her face changed, as she raised her deep brown eyes to mine, to such a look of hope and trust, that I bit my lip till the blood came, and vowed to hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BODIE ADVENTURE. | 1/13/1883 | See Source »

...long since we have attempted to criticise our contemporaries that we have found ourselves almost overwhelmed with the constantly increasing pile of exchanges; and it is with a feeling of despair and dread that we put on our overhauls and prepare to slash around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGE COLUMN. | 1/13/1883 | See Source »

...hope that no one will be frightened by this title. We desire not to express an unreasonable ill-humor, but merely to mention a few trifles around the Yard which interfere seriously with the comfort of the undergraduate. And we have chosen a title which expresses our feelings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME GRUMBLING. | 1/13/1883 | See Source »