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...Williams Athenaeum is devoted mainly to sarcastic allusions to the Faculty, who, it seems, have been treating the luckless students with great severity. Four Freshmen have been suspended for "'putting a wall between themselves and a college officer,' i. e. tossing ball by East College, and running when they saw him coming." The Glee Club, too, in order to pay off a debt, had arranged to give several concerts in the neighboring towns; but the permission of the Faculty was at first flatly refused, but finally was granted, with great reluctance, accompanied by a reprimand. The same august body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

Till, like Alice' luckless hatter, people "wonder what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE SPRING. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...Luckless wights! have done the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SENIOR'S LAMENT. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

...limps and writhes thy luckless verse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER FORM! | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

Antonelli's face turned as red as the robe that was the emblem of his dignity. He retired, to compose a telegram bearing the news of this last diabolical act instigated by the heretical German premier. As he passed, his eye met the luckless Giacomo, cowering behind a statue. For one second the full flash of the Cardinal's eye was focussed on the unfortunate page. When he went on, the page was no longer there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW JOHN POLHEMUS BECAME A CARDINAL. | 3/26/1875 | See Source »

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