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...fact that the class crews are now upon the water shows that it will not be long before the weather will be warm enough to melt the little snow now upon the ground, and permit the candidates for the 'Varsity nine to practice regularly on Jarvis field. Before the nine goes upon the field it may be interesting to examine what the candidates have been doing in the gymnasium during the winter months preparatory to beginning active training out of doors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball. | 3/17/1887 | See Source »

...rarely enter its doors. It is said that constant dropping will in the end wear away a stone, but if the amount of communications, editorials and special articles written on this subject were to be printed altogether we are sure that the rock of opposition would melt away like mist before their formidable array. The experiment is worth trying for one year at least, and then it could not be said (?) that Harvard college was behindhand in the march of college improvements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/7/1884 | See Source »

...aesthetes declare that Hamlet said: "O that this too-too solid flesh would melt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

...from giving. Never use tobacco in society, and remember before entering a drawing-room always to chew cloves or something of a similar nature. Be particular in little things; do not throw off your collar because you are warm, nor take off your collar because it has begun to melt. Such small points are too apt to be laughed at at Neophogen as over-refinements. Be careful, yet simple in your dress. A brass collar-button is better than a scarlet necktie. Do not lounge with the men at one end of the room, and never fail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO A FRESHMAN AT NEOPHOGEN. | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

...goody is beyond scolding; she is so very meek and small, that if I mildly remonstrate with her for having forgotten my room some morning, or for some other such trifling misdemeanor, she cowers and seems about to melt away in tears. This of course makes me feel myself to be a cruel tyrant; so I have to say that it is of no consequence and change the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOSPITALITY AT MONTREAL. | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

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