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GOING yesterday to dine with an old acquaintance, a distant relation, I was pleased to find that there were only a few friends and neighbors present, and that it was a simple family party. There is nothing so agreeable to a man of strong family feeling as an assembly of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES." | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

Not that Nicholas's wants are few; he sees very little in one's room that he does not want. But bless the boy, say I, it is n't necessary to give him everything; he will give me his company for nothing, and take us dyspeptic students away from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NICHOLAS. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

THE New York Times of March 16 prints a letter on boating at Harvard, which contains statements that are very unjust to the gentleman who has lately been coaching the Freshman crew. The writer of the letter states that, though the Freshman crew is now being coached by Mr. Warren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

If the idea of Handicaps were carried out and made a fact instead of an idea, it would serve as a great stimulant to athletics. Such races held, say biweekly on Friday afternoons, when there is nothing going on, and for cups of moderate value, would command a large entry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

Disgusted with this and other failures to get into print, he decided that his talents were not of the inferior order which wins newspaper notoriety. Nothing short of a book would do him justice.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JEREMIAH SMITH. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »