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This time it is "Storer College," West Virginia. They want only $15,000 for a "John Brown" Professorship, to be filled by a colored person. We recommend for the position some one of the Memorial Hall faculty.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/25/1882 | See Source »

Here is a brief extract from Mrs. Livermore's lecture on "The Boy of the Period:" "He comes into the world occupying a position such as no boy ever occupied before. He feels very speedily all the goldenness of the place he occupies. He intends to be wealthy and successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/23/1882 | See Source »

Then began a series of manoeuvres on my part to recover the lost ground. I tried every possible position, and assumed every attitude, but failed to get any view of the hidden maiden. I distended and contracted myself to the utmost power of my elasticity, and had nearly given up...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FRONTI NULLA FIDES." | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

SHE [aside]. - Worse and worse. Daisy Chizzlehurst, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. But [desperately] I can't stop now. Oh! why does n't she come? [Proceeds to place the shawl round his shoulders. As she does so, he seizes her hands and holds her fast, glancing up...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OH! | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

AN item in the Echo a few days since announced the establishment at Columbia of a six-year honor course in modern languages. Scandinavian, unknown at Harvard, is included in the list; and, as far as we can judge without fuller information, the course seems to us a very complete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/9/1881 | See Source »