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Here a hard, dissipated, and blase look tried to cross the Freshman's visage as he prepared to shock the N. C., but, suddenly thinking that the man might be a Herald reporter in feeble disguise, he foxily changed base, and replied, "As for smoking and drinking, I guess, as a rule, we are not so bad as the papers make out, but in betting we have to give odds to Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL THINGS ARE NOT, ETC. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...CROSS, of Providence, will umpire the Brown-Harvard game to-morrow. The train for Providence leaves at 1 P. M. The return train reaches Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...gilt cross above the entrance of the Library is said to have been brought from Louisburg at the time of its surrender to Sir William Pepperel and the Massachusetts troops, in 1745. This date is said to have been painted on it, with a further inscription, when it was preserved formerly among other relics in Harvard Hall; but, after the removal of the library from that building in 1841, these relics were transferred to a building in which the Panorama of Athens was exhibited, and, in a fire in which that building was consumed, the inscription on the cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

Early in the morning, before the Muezzin summons the faithful in our own beautiful Teheran, I was told to go to a small mosque which they call Shah-pehl. Faithful to the customs of my country, I entered and took my seat cross-legged on the floor, in a narrow passage which ran down the middle. I noticed that much applause followed this simple action, and have since heard that these young dogs (I will pollute the tombs of their forefathers) call this expression of feeling the uhoodhup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNE LETTRE PERSANE. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...cross-country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HE IS AN ENGLISHMAN." | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

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