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- It is rumored that shortly before the close of the term, the Juniors will don the Oxford caps.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

TO the novel-reader who has not confined the gratification of his taste to more recent productions, but has dipped into the pastoral and the chivalric romances of the seventeenth century, one of the few interesting features of that dreary region lies in the opportunities for contrasting the behavior of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NOVEL OF TO-DAY. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

It is not so many years since the class of "long-speech" novels died out, for its most prominent representatives in this century are the works of G. P. R. James. His minute descriptions of his heroines, beginning with the "finely pencilled eyebrows" and "shell-like ear," and extending to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NOVEL OF TO-DAY. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

Or the fault may lie in my own stupidity; for I confess that even yet I cannot see the connection between politics and chimney-pots, or between personal allusions to the character of prominent politicians and good taste in architecture. When I go voluntarily into a political meeting, knowing that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROVINCE OF ELECTIVES. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

The second class, the Ungulates, comprises all those who, having squeaking or heavy shoes, seem to be ever desirous of making all the noise possible either with said shoes or else by keeping up a constant buzzing with their tongues, like flies in fly-time. Their answers to all questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 3/9/1877 | See Source »