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THE literary monthlies seem to be universally reverenced by the "college press," and it is but seldom that an iconoclastic exchange editor dares to make the mildest criticism on them. When he does, they don't receive it with any more humility than any of the less pretentious papers would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

SHARP. Oh, don't decline it! - Do you see Miss Funk

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

You are so dull, I don't know what to say.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

I HAD heard of his existence before, but had never had the pleasure of seeing him till last Saturday, when we met in the horse-car. He got in at the 'Port, accompanied by his grandmother and a lively young aunt. He was pale and intellectual-looking, and was gifted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INFANT PHILOSOPHER. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

DID you ever read "Student Life at Harvard"? I don't think any mention is made in it of Percy Altamont Villiers, younger brother of George, the hero of that delightful book. He had read his brother's biography, and, fired by that noble example, he determined to follow in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROMANCE OF A PIOUS YOUTH. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »