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Our action in regard to the "Intercollegiate Literary Association" might be pronounced, and, no doubt, has been pronounced, an assertion of our mightiness and our contempt for what amuses the ??? of the college world. We refused in the beginning to have anything to do with it, and we have since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR RELATIONS TO OTHER COLLEGES. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

But to return to where I started from. It is a crisp January day in a beautiful but too little known city of Canada; the thermometer says ten below zero; the snow is two feet deep and as dry as tinder; the scene is the side of a hill, steeper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TABOGGINNING. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

On all parts of the hill are scattered in little groups gentlemen and ladies, boys and girls, - of all ages, from fifteen to thirty, - married and single, engaged, and still to have that pleasure. Instead of sleds they are dragging up the hill "taboggins," which is the Indian sled, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TABOGGINNING. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

After making these notes, I went and bought a twenty-five-couponed palace-car ticket to Pelican Swamp, for four quids, two drinks, and a bowie-knife; then I sat down and waited half an hour.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOUTHERN LIGHTNING EXPRESS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

Then, by good luck, in came an old lady of seventy, going to spend a week with her niece. She had three trunks, two carpet-bags, a band-box, an umbrella, a bundle of clothes, a parasol, a bundle of tracts, a jar of pickles, some peppermints, a few odd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOUTHERN LIGHTNING EXPRESS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »