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Boating, base-ball, and foot-ball receive the detailed treatment they deserve. From the description of the new Gymnasium we find that the new structure is to be of brick with sandstone trimmings. It is intended to give the design the character of colonial architecture, so that it may harmonize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GUIDE TO HARVARD COLLEGE. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

To this "Ossip," adapting our illustration, replies : Hollis Holworthy " avows his intention" of getting drunk. We, "whose opinion is not asked," " intimate delicately but intelligibly that he is gabbling like a gosling." [" Ossip" here implies that we advocate the blurting out of this truthful criticism. He seems not to have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUESTION AT ISSUE. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

"If there is one thing more than another which I despise in a woman it is flirting. In a man it is more pardonable, for there is no illusion hanging around him to be spoiled by the vulgar reality of flirting ; . . . . he is just the kind of being you would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

To "Ossip's" reply that we do H. H. neither harm nor good we can, in general, assent. But he implies, by saying that the expression of our disapproval establishes our reputation as a meddlesome character, (1) that H. H.'s language is none of our business, and (2) that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUESTION AT ISSUE. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

TO know exactly what "the thing" is, forms the chief ambition of many of us here at Harvard; we spend most of our time in trying to find out its character, seldom, however, with any satisfactory results.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE THING." | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

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