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...know who takes the prize as Harvard's runner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CLASS POEM. | 5/19/1881 | See Source »

...three, unconscious how "the gods made mock at us," sat late into the starlight night, and no one could know that our hearts were not at peace. I can hear the light laughter of more than one happy group of people on that piazza yet; so great a part does commonplace play in this life of ours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIRD OF THE AIR. | 5/19/1881 | See Source »

...toilet and went over to breakfast. My friends told me that I looked pale, and had lost my appetite. It was no news to me. I asked if Stephen had been anywhere seen. No, not since yesterday. Where was he? I could say nothing, except that I did not know; I could not bring in that strange enchanted vision as evidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIRD OF THE AIR. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

What she said I do not remember. Perhaps this whole dialogue does not seem worth remembering. I only know that when I came to talk of the separation about to come, I thought that she grew very sober; I thought I almost saw tears in her eyes. Never mind what I saw. I drew her trembling form closer to mine; and then I knew that we two must not part for ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAPTER III. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...question already settled. This character it has put off once for all. It is now the aggressive champion of the Bursar, New London, College Poetry, the Echo, and any other thing under the sun which has, or fancies it has, received a slight from the Crimson. We do not know how to reconcile ourselves to the new order of things. What can we do without the calm, monotonous pleasure of a fortnightly Advocate? Henceforth we must seek relief from the Crimson's blood-curdling sensationalism and the Lampoon's Phoenix witticisms in the "???" editorials and elective pamphlet expositions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/6/1881 | See Source »