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...severe struggle is going on between the two horse railroads of Cambridge, the Union and Charles River. The Union road seems to think it has a right to the monopoly of the business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 1/7/1882 | See Source »

...because that body has been in the past so peculiarly the protege of the college press that we feared the mention of it had grown stale by repetition; but the recent debates held in Sever call for a word of the warmest approval. The Union has shown its undoubted right to the support of the entire University, and by the event proved the wisdom of its choice of a presiding officer. It is growing in popularity and in influence; and it may now be entirely removed from the list of experiments and placed in the list of assured successes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...with affected innocence]. - Why, what's the matter? Is n't that right...

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

...heart; but I must have a stump or something to stand on. Oh, here's one; that's all right." Mounting the stump, she began her story in the unnatural, high-pitched voice well known to frequenters of school-exhibitions and Sunday-school concerts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...said Goe, breaking into a merry laugh. "Me and Bang, we went right by his hut; did n't we, Bang? And we heard somebody talking, and what do you think it was? We peeped through a crack, me and Bang did, and we saw Yung walking up and down, and saying something; and did n't he look funny! Did n't he, Bang? And when he got through he looked scared, and said, 'It's a pome, and I'm a pote!' and I'm sure I don't know what that means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »