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...work is light; the Cambridge air, I think, agrees with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERCEPTED. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...these are only a part of the benefits we shall all reap from the convention. College journalism will receive a new impetus, the funny men can get up a "corner" on jokes, the light and heavy prose men can "bull" or "bear" their respective productions, while the poets can derive more fire from the others' fervor. But why stop here, and thus deprive the rest of the world of this feast of reason? Now that the project is set on foot, let it be expanded till it takes in the editors of all college papers everywhere. Even this will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...present state of things is a marked change from what it was two years ago. Then, it is true, the gas burned in the entries till only half past ten; but a full blaze could be got at any part of the night in the basements. Now the brightest light in many of the buildings is only a glimmer, that hardly serves to make the darkness visible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...cosmical harmony." We learn, further on, that "in vital matters, man and woman are equal. In functional relation to the cosmical order, each is other's superior." This appalling fact should be borne in mind, and we doubt not that our readers will shape their future courses by the light herein afforded. Some of them, however, may be inclined to question the truth of the concluding sentence: "In sufficiency, fulness, simplicity, strength, sweetness, science has no such word as 'Eve.'" If Mr. Pratt wishes to reply, our columns shall be open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...opinions. I said no more. Coming home rather late one evening, I was astonished to find my bed occupied. At first I was uncertain whether or no I might not be deceived by an abnormal condition of some of my senses, but as soon as I struck a light he exclaimed, "Ah, Jack, is that you?" I answered in no very pleasant tone that as near as I could recollect it was. He asked, "Which side of the bed do you prefer?" I told him the outside, and slept on my lounge. My dreams were none of the pleasantest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR GUESTS. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

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