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...over with other 'prominent citizens,' I thought I'd risk it. As it is, all has turned out very well. Elsie is the first respectable woman under sixty who has come to Bodie, and she is creating a regular furor. She holds a reception every evening; the miners form in line and, one after the other, shake hands with her, and have a few minutes' talk. Some of them, who left wife and family East, come away with tears in their eyes. If any one strikes an unusually fine piece of ore, he presents it to Elsie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BODIE ADVENTURE. | 1/13/1883 | See Source »

...result, the country owes unspeakable gratitude to the World for its bold exposure of the truth. The Alpha Delta Phi Society has hitherto been supposed to be a harmless college society, organized for the purpose of permitting its members to wear breast-pins of a peculiar form. Under its cloak of innocent breast-pins the society is nevertheless - as the World has discovered - endeavoring to make itself the ruling power of the nation, and its dangerous character can be readily perceived under the light of alleged publicity which the World has thrown upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. | 1/10/1883 | See Source »

...ways and means committee yesterday completed its work upon the tariff commission report, with the exception of some further revision, which will be done after the reprinting of the schedule in corrected form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 1/9/1883 | See Source »

...have met with in this review. The wonted dignified conservatism of the Advocate is as prevalent in its verses as in its editorials, and sets it off in a distinct contrast to the other papers. Among the items verses also are frequently found, capital hits, such as would form the literary matter of many another hungry journal. The Crimson, shall we say it, has deteriorated; it is not up to last year's mark, but good verses are by no means rare. It is a very noticeable fact, however, that with all the would-be poets in Harvard there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE POETRY. | 1/8/1883 | See Source »

AEstheticism is voted bad form and vulgar in English society. Athleticism has taken its place, and all sorts of vagaries in the worship of physical culture hold full sway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/6/1883 | See Source »