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...DEAREST LILIAN, - I have so much to tell you that I can't write half. I only wish you were here. Cambridge is such a queer place, - the people are all so intellectual and that sort of thing. They carry books in the horse-cars, and the girls all talk about political economy and protoplasm. It's not a bit interesting. Their manners are exquisite, though. I suppose that comes from meeting so many students. Of course you're dying to hear about the students. Well, they're perfectly horrid. They stare at one dreadfully. Of course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BUNDLE OF LETTERS. | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

...next meeting of the Harvard Union, which takes place next Thursday, the question whether the Union shall establish a legislative branch will be discussed, instead of the regular debate. As the subject under discussion is very important, all members of the Union are requested to be present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

...maiden is fair, yea, passing fair to look upon. And the young man seeketh the owner of the house and is presented, which in the language of Kayhmbryjje is knocked down, and it were better for the young man that he were indeed deposited on the ground in a place where no man should come unto him. For lo, the maiden is what is called in the tongue of the Philistines, fresh, and loveth beyond all things to snub, which, translated, is sit upon the hopes of youthful genius. And verily, to the young man's questions she returneth answers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GO AND DO THOU NOT LIKEWISE. | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

...game of November 20 or not, we do not see how the title Yale claims can be allowed to her. If Princeton, after giving up (in the formal meeting at New York) all claim to the forfeit game with Columbia, and after agreeing to play a deciding game in place of it, now renews her attempt to take advantage of the for feiture, she does what she has a right to do, but not what we should expect of Princeton. [This is written without any further knowledge of Princeton's action than can be obtained from Yale's letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

...pitiful look at the burial-place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REMEMBERED DOUBT. | 1/14/1881 | See Source »