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...squarely face the present outlook in foot-ball, and see just how desperate our chances for success have really become. It is only by so doing, and then, in the full realization of all this means, by rousing from our present strange lethargy to new energy, that even a ghost of a show of winning the championship is left us. To anyone who has watched the men practicing on Jarvis, these words are perhaps unnecessary, for all such must have noticed, not only how few men were at work, but how small, comparatively, these few men were. There is really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/29/1884 | See Source »

...ghost-horse on the mount doth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENDER MADRIGALS BY COLLEGE POETS. | 5/7/1884 | See Source »

This is a very fair specimen of gloom of another kind than that used by the "sea" poets. It has the weirdness and ghastliness of a silly ghost story told in full daylight, and produces about as much real effect on the hearer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENDER MADRIGALS BY COLLEGE POETS. | 5/7/1884 | See Source »

...Brighton street a ghost in white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/7/1883 | See Source »

...ghost of a gown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BALLADE OF A LIVE MUSE. | 1/9/1883 | See Source »

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