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"The moral results of this scheme were excellent, but yet the contribution-box was never empty; and I put in the most money, for the provocations to profanity which an ingenious chum can invent are infinite. But although there was always some money in the box, it seemed to me...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CURIOSITY IN LITERATURE. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

But one thing was needed to make him perfect, he must be proved to be the perpetrator of crimes, - and that was done; he had been the leader of a band of robbers, everybody asked him to dinner; he had been accused of murder, his reputation was established. His poetry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POPULAR POETS. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

The present Sophomore class, on undertaking the conduct of the Institute, felt that although much good work had been done for it by the classes immediately preceding, and although it had in some respects been well maintained, yet that there existed a very general lack of interest in its literary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INSTITUTE OF 1770. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

An infusion of some new life seemed necessary, and to this end the members worked sedulously to diversify and render the performances interesting by every means in their power. These efforts were successful in a marked degree, and the society can point to its records for the last six months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INSTITUTE OF 1770. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

To accomplish all this, the Society has been at an expense of between four and five hundred dollars, more than half of which was subscribed at the meeting at which the change was decided upon, and the balance was forthcoming in so generous a manner as to give the strongest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INSTITUTE OF 1770. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »