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...light but fiendish smile seemed to lurk beneath this fair exterior. As he swung gracefully on to an outward-bound car, several Cambridgians and "Cambridgets" bestowed curious glances on him. He dropped into the only vacant seat beside a Freshman, whose character has always been that of a truthful man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL THINGS ARE NOT, ETC. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...been eaten, and a mustache had been painted on my favorite photograph of Mary Anderson. Do you wonder that I fell into a gloomy train of thought? 'This Class Day,' said I to myself, as I looked down upon the throng below, 'is a resting-point in a man's life, - a day which makes him forget to think about the future, and leads him to look back upon the years that are gone. And who can look back without a pang? who can recall, without bitter regrets, the pleasant days and kind faces that he has known? Ah! fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN UNDERGRADUATE'S CLASS DAY. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

Here a hard, dissipated, and blase look tried to cross the Freshman's visage as he prepared to shock the N. C., but, suddenly thinking that the man might be a Herald reporter in feeble disguise, he foxily changed base, and replied, "As for smoking and drinking, I guess, as a rule, we are not so bad as the papers make out, but in betting we have to give odds to Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL THINGS ARE NOT, ETC. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...time I watched the different types of beauty, - but so much beauty is intoxicating. The brilliant crowd began to oppress me, and I walked over to my room. It was still occupied by the guests of the man who had borrowed it. I sat down on the window-seat outside, and could hear the conversation within...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN UNDERGRADUATE'S CLASS DAY. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...bachelor's room is always a mirror of his character,' said a literary-looking young lady. 'Behold this filthy pipe, - he is a smoker; observe those German favors, - he is a society man; witness the publicity of these certificates of society membership, - he is conceited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN UNDERGRADUATE'S CLASS DAY. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »