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...long deplored the various styles of clothing worn by students. Many professors claim that they are too much confused by the diversity of costumes to be able to do full justice to the lectures. And indeed their aesthetic eye is only too apt to be offended. Here is a man with a high collar; there, another with a low; then there are students with square cuffs, and round cuffs, and no cuffs at all. One persists in parting his hair on the side; another, in parting it in the middle. Indeed, it is impossible for any unanimity to exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW SCHEME. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...man's class must be distinctly stamped on his shoes, which are to be of some light kind of leather. The janitor of each building, if he is requested in a pleasant tone of voice, may clean these shoes, but not oftener than once a week, for the sum of twenty-five cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW SCHEME. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...this way it is hoped that everybody will be satisfied. I forgot to state that the price of the regulation suits is fixed at sixty dollars for the largest, fifty-five for the next, and so on. It has been suggested that a tall man who wishes to economize can do so by wearing the smallest suit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW SCHEME. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

Save, perhaps, a man from Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWELLS OF OCEAN. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...neatly caught it - between the eyes; notwithstanding the sudden shock, he deftly hurled the red globe to Cunners, on first base, in time to put Moriarty out. Amid the cries of the populace of, "No, you're not there, Moriarty," he returned home, a sadder and a wiser man; taught a lesson which, alas! many of us have learned, that the Borsair is by no means easy to get along with. The next man was pitched out, and the third scraped the airy vault of heaven with what seemed to every one a home run; but little they recked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MATCH OF THE SEASON. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »