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The Proctor don't like him at all,

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAVE CANEM. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

"GOOD GRACIOUS, chum! what shall I write about?" "Don't know, and don't care; it's sure to be stupid, anyhow, so don't spoil a good subject." "I guess I'll write on 'English and American Society.'" "What!!! Have n't you read the Advocate, on the 'limits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON "THE LIMITS OF A COLLEGE PAPER." | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

The general verdict is, and to this conclusion the writer is driven by the fate of several previously rejected essays on "Etruscan Philology," that people want to be amused, and take the papers chiefly for that end. Of course there are different tastes in amusement; for example, I should suppose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON "THE LIMITS OF A COLLEGE PAPER." | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

Brother poets, if you must write "Lines to a Harebell," or "On a Withered Daisy," do so by all means, but don't print them, unless you have more confidence in your genius than the world is likely to have; or at least do not build the lofty rhyme to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR BARDS. | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

Who don't love beauty and who can't construe.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EHEU! EHEU! | 1/28/1876 | See Source »