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FOOTBALL. - Interesting game in which eleven men try to kick the shins off eleven other men; failing in this, necks, ribs, and limbs are broken with impunity. The "boss" game takes place every Thanksgiving Day between eleven tramps from Yale and an equal number from Princeton. Twenty-two men retire from the conflict covered with wounds and glory. Much lying done as to why and how this match is lost and won. See Yale, Princeton, &c. - Columbiad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

...told me a story the other day," Percy observed, trimming his pipe, "that pleased me a good deal. Dr. C. roomed on the south-west corner of Maine Hall, and had a very sunny place. Gray, who was just across the entry, came in one day with a lot of pears not quite ripe, and asked to leave them in C.'s windows to ripen. A few mornings after, Professor Packard called on C. to ask something about a library book. After he had done his errand, the old gentleman walked up to the window, and began to examine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

...place of honor in The Art Amateur for March is occupied by Frederick A. Bridgman, whose genius and industry have won him, at the early age of thirty-three, a high repute in two hemispheres. An entertaining sketch of the artist by Edward Strahan, a fellow-pupil in the atelier of Gerome, is illustrated by a portrait and a number of drawings by the artist; while the frontispiece, drawn by Camille Piton, represents Bridgman's "Lady of Cairo Visiting." A special feature of the number is Caryl Florio's long review of "Billee Taylor," the new English comic opera, giving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

Shining from some distant place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH A VEIL. | 2/25/1881 | See Source »

...83.THE meeting of the Harvard Union of last night took place in Sever Hall. In spite of the cold weather and the meetings of several other societies on the same evening, the meeting was one of the most successful the Union has had. The question was: "Resolved, That co-education is desirable at Harvard." The regular disputants were, on the affirmative, Messrs. Firman and Mclnnes; and on the negative, Messrs. Thayer and Fuller. About a dozen members spoke from the House. Though the ballot on the merits of the question was two to one against co-education, the vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELL, NOT THIS EVENING. | 2/25/1881 | See Source »