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...experience of St. Patrick's Day, that something green would be appropriate. Accordingly, I borrowed a green necktie from a Freshman friend next door, and set forth. Arriving at my destination, I succeeded in forcing a way through an immense crowd of the faithful with what clothing a reasonable man would expect to have left at such a time. Once in, I saw around me all sorts and conditions of people. There were men with collars and without neckties, and vice versa; women with beards, and women with elbows seemingly enlarged for the time; women with bandaged faces, and women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT HIGH MASS. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...took the seat left vacant by a stout man who had been ejected for loudly disputing a friend who asserted that Rome was in Egypt. Here I was addressed by a person who began a voluntary monologue upon the evils of Catholicism. "Beginning," he said, "with Asia, and spreading through England, Italy, and its islands, the bigotry of the Catholic church came over to - " His geography failing him, I suggested Samoa. Unhappy venture! He began with Samoa, and opened a controversy upon the question of our country's buying it. As he turned his head, however, at the sound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT HIGH MASS. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

April 25, Prof. J. D. Whitney, "The Californian Pliocene Man." Illustrated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

...ALTHOUGH it is comparatively early in the term, Senior parts have been assigned to Pray, Salutatorian, and, with the exception of those who had parts last term, and a man who entered Bowdoin during Senior year, all the rest of the class." - Bowdoin Orient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

...must always happen that, with no consideration of the "softness" of courses, some will be chosen by a larger number of students than others, since it is more useful to most fellows to know French than Sanscrit, and Latin than music. Keeping a man from an agreeable and popular course will never drive him into a difficult and unpopular elective, but into another course that will not probably do him as much good as the one he would have chosen had he been at liberty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THINNING AN ELECTIVE. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »