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...carry out. Once they blew out the whole side of University. Of course any one could have thought of that, but it required lots of nerve to do it, and do it in such a way as to escape detection. At another time they were going to have a big time here putting up the flag-pole. They were going to put up the pole on the morning of the Fourth of July, and left it lying on the ground the night of the third. A party of students went there that night, and painted the whole length...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALK WITH A CAMBRIDGE POLICEMAN. | 2/20/1882 | See Source »

...cost the Union Railway Company $12,000 to keep the track clear since the big snow storm of Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/7/1882 | See Source »

...looks like a Yale senior does when he asks you to waltz - sort of frightened and remorseful. But I'm just going to tell you of something that happened at the theatre the other evening. I went with my Cousin Harry (he's my second cousin), and a great, big, horrid man leaned over and asked me if I wouldn't take my Gainsboro' hat off at the end of the act so that he could hear the orchestra; he said he'd given up trying to see anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER FROM A YOUNG LADY. | 1/23/1882 | See Source »

...Lend me your ears," quoted a Chicago orator, and a wicked St. Louis man who was present said it was a big loan to negotiate in Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/11/1882 | See Source »

When we had all made our pilgrimage and received our documents, the doors of the room were thrown open, the old Rector took his stand at one end of the big table, and we all formed in single file, passing round the table and shaking hands with the Rector, and then out at the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW I MATRICULATED AT A GERMAN UNIVERSITY. | 11/25/1881 | See Source »