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...dead lips are ever dumb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT DUSK. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

Shall not for ever sleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT DUSK. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

...complaint. Only five rooms in Hollis and Stoughton together were given up, and as this is not more than a twelfth of the whole number, the Bursar was compelled, in justice to sub-freshmen, to reserve these rooms for them. Men in college seem to forget that they were ever sub-freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

...College of New York read in vain AEsop's fable of the lion and the mouse? AEsop was a queer man; but he certainly did not have in his mind boys of eighteen or nineteen when writing that fable, but men old enough to know better. If ever a lack of patience or tact is to be lamented, it is certainly in the case of a college instructor, and more so in the case of a college faculty. It is so hard for young men to think themselves into the position of older people, that fault-finding and even lack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

...book she had given me, to change the conversation. Ye nymphs! It was "Plutarch's Lives" in the original Greek! She saw my astonishment, and said triumphantly, "Guess you must 'a' thought girls could n't read Greek. Oh, you college boys is awful silly! Why, I like that ever so much better than novels; but I don't believe you could read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STANDARD AT WELLESLEY. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »