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...students are requested to be careful that all windows and doors on the back side of the dormitories are closed and fastened during the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS DAY, JUNE 23, 1876. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...fourth inning Couch, the Amherst catcher, was struck on the back of his hand by the striker's bat, and had his thumb broken. This so demoralized the Amherst men that they refused at first to continue the game; but, after a little persuasion, they yielded, and the game went on. At the end of the ninth inning the score stood eleven to nothing in favor of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD vs. AMHERST. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...good form to the great king" - the monarchy of Persia, by the way, I shall compare to Yale; it was a place where loud-dressed and loud-talking people lived, who never accomplished much, and who wore jewels and charms of quaint, mysterious, and barbaric shapes. But, to come back to my subject, the delight that I feel in imagining the ostracism of Swiddle is only equalled by that which I feel when I sometimes imagine for a moment that the new regulations about required church and fifty per cent are nothing but little sells which our rulers have amused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTRACISM AND OTHER THINGS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

...LARGE hole has been made in the Yard back of the Library, and the dwellers on the back of Weld will have their fill of noise next winter. The disciples of Goodeve will be seen in large numbers in that part of the Yard; and it has been suggested that the Corporation would save money by holding next year's recitations in Mechanics there, and obliging the Freshmen to perform practical examples...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...girl - she was a precious jilt - went back on him, they said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIGHT-THOUGHTS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »