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...encourages rowing inasmuch as it gives every one who has subscribed ten dollars to the University crew an opportunity to row, while at the same time the number who actually row would not be in creased enough to make the boats crowded. A seat for every third or fourth man could be provided easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A UNIVERSITY BOAT-CLUB. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...Germans to allow the windows to remain closed. In winter the case is still worse, and at the end of the hour the American student, who has been used to better things at home, rushes to the window to get a gasp of pure ether. Unhappy is the man who must sit in the same room for the following hour. Not only has the good air been exhausted, but the evil has been increased in another important respect. As elegance of dress and personal cleanliness are rare traits of the German student, the odor that one perceives on entering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...last number he has attempted to quote the saying of one of our Western Senators, who when asked why he took two cocktails in the morning, replied, "The first makes a new man of me, and then I feel bound to treat that man." Now there is some wit in that, but Lampy has twisted it into. "The first makes me feel like a new man, and then of course the new man wants a cocktail"; but there is no new man there, he only feels like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY IN ERROR. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

THREE came a confidential knock at the door the other afternoon, followed, with scarce a pause for an answer, by the entrance of a little old man. Closing the door behind him with brisk gentleness, he glided forward, and with the smile and manner of an old family friend, said, "Had your head examined? guess I didn't see you t' other day; have n't had your head examined, have you?" Politely motioning toward a friend who happened to be in the room, I pretended to be absorbed in my book. Renardy was in an easy-chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AGED CALLER. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...ordinary Irishman, the kind who builds fires for his living. The specimen with which I have daily intercourse would furnish a careful student of human nature with a fund of amusement and instruction that would be inexhaustible. I ask you, my reader, to picture to yourself a man whose sole care in life, as far as it appears, is the burden of lighting sundry fires and cleaning various boots. It would seem as if this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded, yet one would suppose that a tolerably well-brought-up mule would know that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCOUT. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »