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...Beacon of Boston University has issued a holiday number...

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

...song by Mr. Moses King, - If you have but fifty cents, spend it for the quadruple number of the Harvard Register...

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

...just come from Smith, the tailor's, and I sank into my comfortable easy-chair - the only chair which I never offer to a stranger - with a mingled sensation of relief and anxiety. To be sure, I had looked over a large number of stuffs, gorgeous, "prononce," "tony," and commonplace, with fair success. I flattered myself that my selection - influenced, I will confess, by the judicious taste of the salesman - would be approved by my friends as correct and even "tough," though not too marked. But nevertheless, while colors, shades, mixed goods, plain goods, and Scotch goods were dismissed from...

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

...hoped that a large number of persons may enter for the Hare and Hounds. Those who have ever participated in one of these long runs across country will know how healthful and exhilarating exercise it is, and new-comers will enjoy the sport enough to improve every opportunity of taking part in it. We wish the hares and the hounds a pleasant afternoon...

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

...rule itself, but the manner in which it is carried out. There would be exactly as much growling if the lights were put out promptly at six o'clock. The malcontents do not seem to appreciate that a rule, especially one that has to deal with such a large number of individuals, to be of any use, must be rigidly enforced...

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