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Third, Personal items, mentioning circumstances which cannot possibly be of interest to any one except the person "itemized," have hitherto been an unknown feature of our college papers. These will be introduced as a special department of the Harvard Reverberation, but not too plentifully at first, lest they should shock minds accustomed to consider such things not in good taste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEXT! | 1/9/1880 | See Source »

...surging shock and shiver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EMBER PICTURES. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...years long gone, without a shock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGUEDOC. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...precisely three o'clock the Borsair, gracefully poising himself on one toe, let fly the sphere. Moriarty, for the Hod-lifters, amid cries of the crowd of, "Are you there, Moriarty?" drove a liner back to the Borsair, who neatly caught it - between the eyes; notwithstanding the sudden shock, he deftly hurled the red globe to Cunners, on first base, in time to put Moriarty out. Amid the cries of the populace of, "No, you're not there, Moriarty," he returned home, a sadder and a wiser man; taught a lesson which, alas! many of us have learned, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MATCH OF THE SEASON. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

Here a hard, dissipated, and blase look tried to cross the Freshman's visage as he prepared to shock the N. C., but, suddenly thinking that the man might be a Herald reporter in feeble disguise, he foxily changed base, and replied, "As for smoking and drinking, I guess, as a rule, we are not so bad as the papers make out, but in betting we have to give odds to Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL THINGS ARE NOT, ETC. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

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