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...held strictly amenable to the common law, and prosecuted for misdeeds as any one else would be. They would like to have us identified with them in that respect, but no other. ... None will deny that there is intemperance in college. But there is no more than elsewhere, rather less. In any college town, there is less intemperance among the students than among the townsmen in proportion to numbers. In the words of an esteemed contemporary: "Just think of this a moment; push it to the ultimate, and I think you will have no difficulty in seeing...

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

...Massachusetts. He wanted to know if Roscoe Conkling had not been elected President, and if the Concord poet were not to be Secretary of State. Tommie did not laugh at these questions: she saw too deeply into the spiritualities of things. She felt that he was intense, and she rather liked him for it. To Lord London she was a riddle - a sphinx...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PICTURE OF A GIRL. | 2/25/1881 | See Source »

...other colleges dailies would do well to imitate . . . Then Columbia is the very spirit of wit, - too apt, in the case of the Acta Columbiana, to degenerate into vulgarity. Of the Spectator, with its admirable illustrations, we wish to speak in terms of unqualified approval. It is suggestively humorous rather than broadly farcical; the little delicate touches that lighten the general effect are added to advantage. . . . The Orient (Bowdoin), Dartmouth, Athenoeum (Williams), Brunonian, and Student (Amherst) have much in common, each being the only representative of its college, and each being industrious in the accumulation of locals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...Queen, in a voice rather forte...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: II. THE REVOLT OF THE GOODIES. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...rather, sweetheart, choose with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FAIREST FOE. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »