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...Faculty, so it is said, will "put out" some of the "bright and shining lights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...they rub her hands, and put snow on her white forehead, and she does not move. And they get out smelling-salts, and send up to the house for brandy, and she does not move. And I went away, and leaned against the mare, and looked at the cold, bright stars; for I could not look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHRISTMAS WAITS. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...long a vacation as the "law allowed and the court awarded," and not to find him here was indeed a sad disappointment. There was no help for it, however, so down I went on my knees, and raked and poked and worked away until at last there was a bright blaze; and just at that moment, lo and behold, in walked my chum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TENDER STORY. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

...ready to tear down the offending vine, and no one seemed to mind the sacrilege. It would be very foolish now to revive ivy planting, -a custom which has nothing whatever in its favor. The exercises at the Tree, however, need additional attractions, and if we can have a bright oration at that time, - and there is every reason to believe we can have such an oration this year, -the rush of former days will have a worthy successor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

...some bright, sunny isle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELIEVE IT NOT. | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

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