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I accept your most kind invitation with whole-souled ecstasy. I fear not a little, however, for my reputation as a whist-player, in case you and I are partners. For with eRos opposite me I shall be in imminent danger of throwing away hearts and diamonds at every trick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOGGLES. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

The College Transcript comes to us from Ohio. It is rather more readable than most of our western exchanges. The article on the return of the Chinese students is bright and entertaining. The Fat-men's Corner contains many droll things; one or two, however, we notice that the Transcript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

AN item in the Echo a few days since announced the establishment at Columbia of a six-year honor course in modern languages. Scandinavian, unknown at Harvard, is included in the list; and, as far as we can judge without fuller information, the course seems to us a very complete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

She was brave enough at home; but here, alone, exposed to she knew not what perils, her courage failed her. With a wild cry, she turned in the direction in which she supposed the village to be. She had not gone many feet, however, when she saw what she most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 11/25/1881 | See Source »

"Well, I'll tell you," replied the Lamprey, picking up the papers that had fallen from his sleeve to the floor. "The Rev. Dr. Bonfire Burnham was just in to see me, and he told me that he feared my piety was growing lukewarm. I had lost the pristine unction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAMPREY AND THE IBEX. | 11/25/1881 | See Source »