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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 »

ONCE upon a time there was a college which was so indifferent that it possessed only five college papers. But by chance there dwelt in this college a man who was not indifferent; and as there was great need of another paper and he had nothing else to do, he bethought him of starting one for the benefit of his fellow-students and the Faculty. Now this man determined to please the multitude, so he advertised for advice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN IDEAL COLLEGE PAPER. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...first man who called upon him wore glasses and a long cloak, and carried the Fortnightly Review in his hand. He was a literary man, and said, "Respected Sir, this college demands a literary magazine. I leave you my essay on the 'Superstitions of Composition, in its Relation to Modern Thought,' for your first number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN IDEAL COLLEGE PAPER. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

There was an old man of Trieste...

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

...pair which can be adjusted in whatever way the user wishes. There will be no machines for general development, such as those of Dr. Winship and others; but from thirty to fifty machines intended to develop the different parts of the body, in order that no one man may take possession of a machine and monopolize it, as was too frequently the case in the past. There will be a new style of adjustable pulling weight. In principle it is the same as the old pulling weight, but in the details of construction it is vastly superior. Wooden pulleys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GYMNASIUM APPARATUS. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »