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...postman reports for May:- Delivery: Letters (mail), 6,428; (drop), 7,559. Postal Cards, 3,693. Collected: Letters AND Postal Cards, 557. It would seem that the undergraduates did but little writing during the few weeks previous to the annuals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

...start was not good, though not bad enough to justify calling the boats back. Weld was backing, and did not seem to hear the word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST CREWS. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

...grass-plots, however, only renders more evident the bareness of their edges, where all the grass has been worn away by the feet of those students who are already asserting the privilege of American citizens to despise all warnings to "Keep off the grass." It would not seem too much to expect that the students should do all that is in their power to make the Yard look well, especially when all that is required of them is to walk only in the paths and to be careful not to drop papers and other rubbish out-of-doors. The "landscape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

...late war) are the enterprising managers of this Hippodrome, and to the travelling agent, P. T. Aristotle, Esq., is due much credit for the excellence of the side shows. Compared to the gigantic concourse of human beings that gathered in the Theatre of Dionysus last evening, all previous audiences seem small in the extreme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHENIAN HIPPODROME. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...regret that young men so easily fall out of the habit of reading poetry, perhaps because it is often both tame and dull; if so, we can assure them that it is quite different with this book, for there is scarcely a line which does not seem to be filled with the natural outburst of a strong, enduring heart, the home of noble thoughts. We are sorry that the printer's work has been so badly done, for the numerous errors in that respect are sometimes serious obstacles to the pleasure of reading. The second edition should be more carefully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/7/1875 | See Source »