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What the average girl doesn't know about mustaches nobody can tell her. It would be the most outrageous presumption. Some people have one idea about a mustache and some another, but there is no mistake about it on the part of a young woman. She knows exactly what the mustache is for, and there is no one who can get quite as much use out of it as the girl who fully understands her business. The mustache, she knows very well, is made to season kisses with, and in many instances kisses derive more than two-thirds of their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DISSERTATION ON MUSTACHES. | 1/9/1882 | See Source »

Visitor to student: "Where is the theology part of this school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/9/1882 | See Source »

...meeting of the board of directors of the Dining Association, the chairman of the auditing committee stated that until about the middle of January no exact statement of the actual cost of board for part of three months will be possible, as all outstanding bills will not have been presented to the bursar before that time. In the opinion of the auditing committee, the price of board, as charged in the term bills for the first third of the year 1881-2, is substantially correct. If, however, it should then appear that excess has been charged above the actual cost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRICE OF BOARD AT MEMORIAL. | 1/7/1882 | See Source »

...recent writer says in regard to the girl of today, "Complain and find fault as we may, we must acknowledge that the modern miss is after all, a pretty nice institution, and one that we wouldn't care to part with. Why grumble at their vanity, you silly fellow, when you are the only one to profit by it? If they dress well, talk well, even flirt just a little bit, we don't care about having them any different than they really are, and with all due regard for our grandmothers, we say, God bless the girls of today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/6/1882 | See Source »

...following is from the pen of the N. Y. correspondent of the Philadelphia Press: "All the fast ball games in which Harvard and Columbia took part were contested conrteously; there is no reason why an athlete should not be a gentleman." He adds that one of Yale's famous captains left Yale long ago and is now "Professor of ornamental profanity in some western fresh-water college; but his influence remains after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/5/1882 | See Source »