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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- On taking up my Advocate to-day, I was very much astonished, and not a little indignant to find in the description of the winter meetings a violent personal attack upon one of the gentlemen who took part in the boxing. Now I for one do not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 3/30/1885 | See Source »

The freshmen cannot be blamed for their exultant feelings over their well earned victory in the tug-of-war contest, nor for their desire to celebrate it in some fitting way; but the needless destruction of private property in the shape of front gates, is inexcusable, and deserving of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/30/1885 | See Source »

I remember once reading, during the evening, an essay of several pages length, and, on going to bed, repeating it word for word, from beginning to end. De Quincey immortalized himself by his wonderful visions. There is that remarkable work of Cicero's on the vision of Scipio, a work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Dreams. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

Boswell offers some startling opinions about marriage, a few pages further on, while writing to a friend who had become engaged. "I am sensible," he remarks philosophically "that everything depends on the light in which we view it, and nothing more so than marriage. If you think of that weariness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Amorous Disposition of Mr. James Boswell. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

Passing over several such episodes, we come to the real love-affair of his life,-that with a certain Miss Blair. He was in love with her for several years, and she with him, yet when one wanted to marry, the other didn't, so nothing came of it. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Amorous Disposition of Mr. James Boswell. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »