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He comes flying into my room about twenty-five times a day on the average to ask me where my chum is, or to ask my chum where I am, or to ask us both where some one else is. When he has found out he goes contentedly back to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHARACTER. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

I rather liked the fellow at first. I thought he was a fresh and ingenuous youth, for whose benefit I could pour forth my reserved stores of wisdom. But after I had told him about fifty times how old I was, how large my allowance was, etc., it began to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHARACTER. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

...lost, but Holden soon sent the ball over by a ground-kick. The three quarters of an hour were now nearly ended, but another goal was obtained by Grant, on a touch-down of Tebbets, before time was called. The score then stood: Harvard, 3 goals, 2 touch-downs; Yale, 0 goals, 0 touch-downs. The Harvard eleven were: Forwards, Davis, Tebbets, Bacon, Holden, Hooper, Nickerson; half-backs, Blanchard, Jordan (captain), Grant; backs, Winsor, Osborne. The Yale team were: Forwards, Peters, Taft, Clark, Moore-head, McHenry; half-backs, Harding, Webb, Hutchings; backs, King, Camp (captain), Trumbull. Of Yale's team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

DEAR JACK, - I am afraid that you are horribly incautious. When your taste happens to differ from that of most of your friends, you have no hesitation in writing about them in terms more forcible than complimentary; and the chances are that what you write so freely to me you...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

MY connection with my class was interrupted last year by what the bible terms "a temporary separation from College." I have been obliged, therefore, to make up this year some of the work which I lost by this absence, and, among other things, to write a theme on one of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RESULT OF REFORM. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »