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...middle of an open space in the aforesaid settlement, there stood a thin, gaunt specimen of mankind, holding in his hand a weather-beaten hunting-case watch, whose virtues he was expounding thus: "My friends, I would call your attention to this elegant silver watch; but before asking for a bid I will give you a short history of its career, and show you some of its good points, so that you may see that you have a veritable treasure in your midst. In the first place, let me tell you that this beautiful timepiece was ordered by Lord Gladstone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUMMER INCIDENT. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...hands of different sizes, for, to a near-sighted person a large hand is of great utility, and vice versa, each person being able to find a hand according to his eyesight. Take the reverse side of the watch. By a graceful and easy pry with my thumbnail I open the cover. Let me here call your attention to this patent nail arrangement. It is so constituted that, by the act of prying the cover, a portion of the nail is removed, and you will readily see that by changing fingers in opening the cover, all necessity of cutting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUMMER INCIDENT. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...long time the College press has demanded that the Library be open Sundays, and we are glad to hear that their appeal has been heard at last. The Library next fall will be thrown open for the use of students on Sunday afternoons. We wish it might be opened next Sunday, but there is so little time remaining that it is scarcely worth the trouble. This will certainly prove a great convenience, not only to the hard student, but also to the devotee of light literature, not to mention the occasional user of reference-books. It is difficult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

...University Nine has been the theme of an unusually large amount of comment this year, and the fact that that comment is not very favorable shows that there must be some points open to criticism. Several games were lost by a hair's-breadth, and we were led to attribute this result to "hard luck;" but we think that the causes of our ill-success lie deeper than that. The base-running, on the whole, has been poor, and it is safe to say that the second game, if no other, with Yale, was lost through this deficiency. The fielding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

...publish in another column a letter from a correspondent concerning a recent editorial article in the Harvard Echo, - a letter which we do not think is open to the charge of misrepresentation or malicious exaggeration. The Echo has a perfect right to criticise, in a courteous manner, any line of conduct that seems unjust; but it has no right whatsoever to insult an instructor who may have displeased some portion of the men in his elective. Both the matter and the spirit of the article in question call for the severest reproof from all who have any desire that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/18/1880 | See Source »