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...LONGFELLOW will be seventy-three years old on February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...rules of the bowling-alleys are very unsatisfactory. Already men are taking advantage of the ticket system, and it is to be hoped that the rules of the old Gymnasium will be adopted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

...mighty heathen god. It must be pleasant, too, when the indefatigable athlete above you drops his Indian clubs with a yell that suggests the origin of the name applied to those useful articles, and begins to practise the last new step. I have heard that in some of the old buildings men frequently have to bring up coal and water from the lower regions, and I know perfectly well that most of the students are under the tyranny of Goodies, Pocos, and Janitors. It may not be generally known that a volume of miscellaneous essays which Leibnitz presented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

...Dedicated to the Professor in English 2, who expressed a desire to hear a good old English refrain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW GYMNASIUM. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

...minus quantity of Latin. As near as I can make out, the Vassar woman was created chiefly to write little poems on tinted paper; to torture "classical" music out of grand pianos; to furnish paragraphs and jokes to the provincial papers, and to be adored by Yale Freshmen. The old man Vassar made a big mistake when he founded that Poughkeepsie ranch, for the ungrateful young dames who go there persistently ignore the very best thing that Matthew ever produced in his life - his beer. - Acta Columbiana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TYPES. | 1/9/1880 | See Source »