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A MEMBER of '82 advertises for a chum. Don't all speak at once!

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

Now my plan is this - Don't you think, Mr. Editor, it would work? Of course examinations cannot be arranged so as to please every one; but to me it seems very unjust that some men should have so much less time to prepare them than others have. I know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EDITOR'S DRAWER. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

I walked on in deep reverie. "T is true," I said to myself, "that collecting is the rage of the age; I don't collect; can it be said that I am not of my own age?"

Author: By W. G. T., | Title: AUTOPHONES. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

"THE rage of collections is the rage of the age," said my companion, as we were walking home from a lecture on the phonograph; "you've never collected anything, why don't you now start a collection of autophones?"

Author: By W. G. T., | Title: AUTOPHONES. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

I even thought of my collection as celebrated; and I seemed to have asked some young ladies to my room to hear the autophones of every one, from George Francis Train to my Goody; I set the machine going, totally forgetting that I had left it open during my absence...

Author: By W. G. T., | Title: AUTOPHONES. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »