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...make for Holworthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...seems a pity when Lampy has got hold of a good thing, he can't make the best of it, even if it is not original...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY IN ERROR. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...lightning was his playground, you know; economy, - Poor Richard's Almanac's right there, you see. Here's the murderer of a whole family; destructiveness right in his head, - never had it examined, and so had to be hanged. That's a perfect woman's head, imaginary; don't make 'em that way nowadays, you know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AGED CALLER. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...ministry. Spirituality - you see, - reverence, veneration, very small and there 's development here," passing his hand over the back of Renardy's head and neck; "that the Boston folks, you know, don't like in their ministers, though it's popular enough down in Brooklyn. You 'd make a good soldier, now, - large nose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AGED CALLER. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

When a college Faculty treat students in the manner we have mentioned, they cannot expect to subdue the boyish and rowdy element which is so prominent in almost all the smaller colleges. The cane and beaver rushes, the Cornell "stackings," the thousand and one absurdities which make up the amusements of such students, will remain in favor so long as the Faculties encourage them by treating their perpetrators as if they were committing a fault and not an imbecility. When a Cornell student "stacks" a room, or a Union student indulges in a cane rush, to wear a foolscap would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE "MAN." | 4/20/1877 | See Source »