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...members of '83, who attended the Globe in a body last Monday, seem to believe that they have obtained the enviable name of "hard men," by their antics during the performance, they should at once be informed that no upper classman regarded their conduct as at all "tough" or "manly." On the contrary, it was considered extremely "soft" and "childish." To say, however, that '83's behavior was childish, is not enough; it was disgraceful. For any conduct on the part of students is disgraceful that calls forth disapproval of its rowdiness from such professed North-End rowdies as packed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '83 AT THE "BLACK CROOK." | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...that some of the unsuccessful candidates have ceased active training. It is to be hoped that these men, inasmuch as the team is by no means definitely decided upon, will change their minds and begin play again. And even if they see no hope for themselves, it does not seem too much to ask that they should continue, in order to give the team the practice they so much need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...love-making will seem peculiar, even to readers of Miss Broughton. Take this for example, - start not, nervous reader; they are to be married in a few pages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK NOTICES. | 10/10/1879 | See Source »

...been addressing the students of Dartmouth, and the result is an unusually bright number of the college paper. The Dartmouth's notes on the early history of the college are interesting, and the locals have the rare quality of being amusing to others than the students themselves. Personals, however, seem to form the body of the paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

Lamb, as usual, occupied much valuable time in posing for the crowd, and it would seem fitting to introduce in the new rules for the College championship some regulation in regard to unnecessary delay in the delivery of the ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »