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...Glee Club Concert is to take place on Wednesday evening, May 4, at 8 P.M. We understand the tickets are selling well, and judging from the programme we can expect the best concert ever given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...there no place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APART. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...game between the 'Varsity and Freshmen, which was to have taken place last Monday, was deferred on account of Mr. Folsom's inability to pitch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...approved not only by the students themselves, but also by all the outsiders that have heard of this disgraceful affair. However necessary it may sometimes be to overlook such petty tyranny in the case of a College official, in this case any such considerations would be out of place. This is by no means the first instance of the Bursar's swinging his unofficial whip. It is only a year ago or less that he turned out a student from his room, which was obtained in an honest manner, and advertised the room to let. But for the timely action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...often to the theatre. So he took me to call on Carolinda Wiggleson. I was just recovering from my passion for Adelinda Higginsworth, and was consequently in a very sensitive and susceptible condition. On entering the room I succeeded by a clever move in giving Lardy a place next to Carolinda's grandmother, and so I had his duck all to myself. I perceived a bookcase at the end of the room, and said I was so much interested in literature. Consequently we walked across, and she showed me Hawthorne's "Marble Faun," which she had herself illustrated. "Yes," said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »