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...father's name used to be Thomas O'Donohue. I don't know what it is now. He is a man of leisure, and at present boards at the granite building near the Medical School. My mother's name was Bridget before her marriage, and is still, I think. They were married...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEL CLASS LIFE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...know about any immediate ancestors; but everybody knows that the O'Donohues go back to one of the Kings of Ireland. For further details see any History of Ireland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEL CLASS LIFE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...lack of support from the College, the Society was obliged to disband. At first I boarded with my cousin Mr. Connors; but, for the last year, I have taken a suite of rooms in College House. My best friend was the President of the Porcelain Club. I did not know him very intimately, but I saw him constantly at a distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEL CLASS LIFE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...write to you because you can't think how fond I am of you, and because I always read you, although Sophie Basdazure (do you know Sophie?) says your general tone is much inferior to that of the Aggravate. Now, you old duck, I 've a little plan, and I want to tell you all about it. I see poor little things wandering about with lots of books under their arms and a very dazed and unhappy expression of countenance. They tell me they are called sub-Freshmen, - things just like Freshmen, only younger and smaller, and trying very hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANNEX ON SUB-FRESHMEN. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...tender age, - one who has trodden on the edge of dangerous and unknown truths preferred, - two cupfuls of platitudes, four cupfuls of conceit; then add two pounds of feeling allusions to the effect that the great majority of your friends never use soap and water, and don't know enough to open their bedroom windows at night. Garnish the dish with "it seems to me," and sprinkle freely with the pronoun I. Serve with grandiloquence and bombast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO MAKE AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »