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...they, "Jacob killed a kid and goes and lies to his father, then Jacob's sons kill a kid and lie to him," forms a fit summary of Jacob's life to those who are acquainted with it. David, a powerful king, suffered many years of torture for his black crimes. He committed murder and his son killed his brother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Moody's Address. | 11/16/1886 | See Source »

...uniforms of the Yale freshman foot-ball team will consist of gray moleskin trousers, canvas jackets, blue stockings and blue and black striped caps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...representatives wore long red togas and black mortar-boards - the "toga virilis" of 1825. The men marched in order and decorum, and presented a fine appearance. The marshals led the procession on horseback, then followed the large body of the senior class, and then, on a dray, a special feature, very well gotten up, representing "Johnnie Harvard's Pa's." The basis for this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT PARADE | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...Junior Class held next place in the parade. Their costume was the most effective of the class uniforms: a red coat with blue facings, buff vest crossed by a blue belt, buff knee-breeches and black hose, and a black and buff cocked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT PARADE | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...Ancient Action of Conversion;" a convict suit labeled "Livery of Seizer," and a bargain between a poco and an aborigine, representing the "Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey was made to illustrate "Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant." A fifth bore on one side two apple trees, a man standing beneath, and in the second scene the apple which hung prominent from the tree is gone. These touching scenes are labeled respectively 'Malum Prohibitum" and "Malum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT PARADE | 11/9/1886 | See Source »