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Would it not be well for those who thoughtlessly run up and down stairs, whistling and talking noisily, to remember that their conduct is very annoying to those who are trying to study in the adjoining rooms?
Down at Durango last week one of the miners on the night shift, in an unguarded moment, kicked the mud off his feet against a can of giant powder, and the coroner had to go after him with a requisition from the governor and a crumb brush. - [Boomerang.
About sixty freshmen attended Oscar Wilde's lecture at Music Hall last evening. They were dressed in a fantastic costume, consisting of a dress coat, knee breeches, black stockings and a striking blue or green necktie. Many wore nigs of the Bunthorne style, and each had two or more large...
"Oh, he's a gosh darn fool; he got mad last night 'cuz I took out my clay pipe, the cussed fool. He said it wasn't emetic, or somethin' like that. I'd like to see'm take a good whiff at it. He'd think is was mighty...
The causes leading up to this, date back as far as July, 1881, when the Academica published an article entitled "The Rector's Case," setting forth nineteen causes of complaint against Thomas Vickers, any one of which, if established, was sufficient to show his unfitness for the rectorship. In alarm...