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The Varsity comes to us from Toronto, its cover adorned as usual with a cheap woodcut of a youth and a maiden, who have apparently just had a fight, and are standing back to back. Whether this is intended to be an allegory upon co-education we are not able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

The Beacon comes to us in holiday dress. Well, Beacon, you have succeeded in blazing out into a most dazzling pink, if nothing more.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

Now it happened that three seats behind ours, i. e., directly in front of me, there was the largest, most luminous, and withal the most ravishing pair of dark-blue eyes that were ever given a girl to do mischief with. When I say large eyes, I don't mean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FRONTI NULLA FIDES." | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

Now I don't want to have it supposed that I forthwith began to ogle and beam upon those eyes, just because I liked their looks. By no means. I'd like to have you know that I'm a Baptist, and Baptists are not that kind of people. But...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FRONTI NULLA FIDES." | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

There was another pair of blue eyes in that seat. They belonged to a calm-looking, middle-aged lady, apparently the mother of the fair one; but, with a most commendable matronly circumspection, she seemed to be quite absorbed in the passing landscape, and I was willing to have it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FRONTI NULLA FIDES." | 12/20/1881 | See Source »