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I AM what is called a boating-man, that is, I saunter down to the club-house every afternoon, select a shell, and try to select an oar - oarful task - from the buttonless, broken-bladed specimens now on exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in...

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

Now I have the fortune, or rather misfortune, to be at a table each side of which is presided over by a different deity of the dining-hall. I sat meekly down, and looked around for my Henry; but my Henry was nowhere to be seen. A hungry man cannot...

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

Memorial Hall is not like your table at home; there is no getting over that fact. The noise at first seems intolerable, but you soon get used to it and begin to make a good deal of it yourself. Instead of a neat maid to wait on you, a burly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOUGHTS ON RETURNING TO COLLEGE. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

Observe the new - fledged Sophomore also. What a change since last June! He has had the whole summer to ruminate on his new honors, and is proud in the consciousness that there is some one below him now. He carries his cane with an easy grace, and looks down with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOUGHTS ON RETURNING TO COLLEGE. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

For his dead wife, went down to Hades grim

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »