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...expectations of even the most knowing. The Freshmen, by an unprecedented display of muscle and skill, in spite of a poor boat and of an unfavorable position, distanced all their competitors, and may well be proud of their victory. With such a good beginning, '83 may be expected to lead hereafter in other races, and to furnish fine material to the University Crew next year. But their success, instead of making them over-confident, should spur them on to better achievements. The other crews were much more evenly matched than had been supposed, and would have merited more attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

...black, with a capacious white felt hat resting soberly on his straight black hair, smooth face, and age anywhere from forty-five to sixty? No, you did n't see him? Well, he looked every inch (and he is some seventy-seven inches high) exactly what he is, the leading deacon of the Smithfield Centre Orthodox Church; one of the bluest of the blue, and a most unrelenting enemy of card-playing, horse-racing, dancing, and the theatre. I trembled as I saw him looming in the distance; my heart sank down to my boots, and I felt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY UNCLE LUTHER. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

...gazed at them with his beautiful china-blue eyes full of that look of meek reproach for which his brother was famous. To his intense astonishment, they did n't slink out of the room abashed and ashamed. They only said that he looked so pious he ought to lead them in prayer; and they made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROMANCE OF A PIOUS YOUTH. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

...martyr. So, lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RAPE OF THE BELL. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

...introduction; I did not dare to disclose my love, but feasted my eyes on the charms of her arms and the grace of her face. At length, after many trials and tribulations expressed in many mournful strains, my love is crowned with success, and I am about to lead her to the altar and live happily ever afterwards, when she discloses to me that in taking her I must also take her mother, two maiden aunts, a grandmother (paternal), and a little sister under my protection. This is too much, and I send Belinda the following farewell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFESSIONS OF A POET. | 3/19/1880 | See Source »