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...received the highest final honors in the classics, graduated the first scholar in a class of 182, and added his name to the list of those who in the past have attained like distinction, an honor of which any one might be proud. Subsequently he received appointment as head assistant in the Arnold Classical School in New York City, and a congenial and promising future seemed open before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARTHUR ORCUTT JAMESON. | 11/11/1881 | See Source »

...awfulest cold in my head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/11/1881 | See Source »

...something that looked like a Summons lying on the ground. I had not had any Summonses yet to tack up on my door, and I thought that I could easily change the name, and then it would look just as well as if I had received it from head-quarters. So I picked it up. The document read as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUAEQUE IPSE MISERRIMUS VIDI. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...saying, Ching Wagg, the chief youth of the village, turned his steps toward the hut of the new arrivals. As he passed the spring in the market-place his face brightened, and with a smile he bowed low toward the damsels, who with Loe Hie at their head, sat in friendly chat around the spring. Then, with a heart overflowing with good-humor toward all the world, which, after all, means only satisfaction with one's self, he went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...seized upon my heart. At 7.31 P. M. I applied my left eye to the key-hole of 93 Thayer. The apartment was brilliantly lighted, and in spite of the smoke I could see pretty well. A number of men were seated around a table; the man at the head of the table was armed with a pair of shears and a yardstick; baskets of cigarettes and kegs of beer stood at various points convenient of access. Just as I had ascertained these facts, the presiding genius rapped sharply on the table, and said, "Gentlemen, the meeting will now come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUAEQUE IPSE MISERRIMUS VIDI. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »