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...down and decipher the old scrap, a la Champollion. Here's a convenient tomb for a sofa. Great gad! think of sitting on a man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

Comments are unnecessary, for the Nassau Lit. declares, "We dare not indulge the hope to find the average Yale man a gentleman under any circumstances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

Some tender-hearted people may object to this plan that it is treacherous; that it takes the man at a disadvantage; that it is hardly honorable. I thought so myself at first, but I convinced myself of the contrary by three cogent arguments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTRACISM AND OTHER THINGS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

...other man would do the same by you if he could get a chance to; 3. The thing has been done over and over again by the ancestors of every decent family in Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTRACISM AND OTHER THINGS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

...sacrifice of their personal preferences - to elect soft courses. Already there are reports of Juniors who are about to change their "well-considered plans," and give up studies for which they have a taste for those which will insure them their A. B.'s. I know of one man who has made a specialty of English and Saxon studies, who had elected English 4 for next year. He has taken all the other courses in the English department, and was anxious to take this one, but felt it imprudent to risk his degree on one examination in a course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW MARKING REGULATIONS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »