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...work on the Theatrum of Memorial Hall has begun, and we hope it will be rapidly pushed forward, that our grand Memorial Building may be as imposing without, as it is within...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

...often are they flagrantly violated! Let us consider them separately. The death must be inflicted cleanly. It is plain that any departure from this rule tends to reduce murder to butchery. It is only a vulgar mind which can delight in blood or in mutilation; we may compare a piece of work treated in a bloody, filthy, or mutilating manner to the ranting of a poor tragedian. There is also another reason for this first principle: if the work is not done cleanly it presents an appearance of bungling or hesitation, and nothing is more fatal than that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PROTEST. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

PROF. (beginning to see). Well, you may translate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

...horse to be presented to the laziest individual in town was secured, through the exertions of the Academy students, for their distinguished Professor of Mathematics; also that the Academy ball-grounds have been extended; and that the Faculty intend (less vivid future) to establish "Amusement Rooms," where the students may enjoy the privileges of a reading-room, billiard parlors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

Platonic souls may change each May...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEBSTER WORCESTER, | 4/9/1875 | See Source »