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A small but select Lawn-Tennis Club was in active operation last autumn, and a Bicycling Club, we are informed, will be the event of the coming season. It is rumored that as soon as the river is open a few "boating men," who are disgusted with the management of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PROGRESSIVE AGE. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

"If there is one thing more than another which I despise in a woman it is flirting. In a man it is more pardonable, for there is no illusion hanging around him to be spoiled by the vulgar reality of flirting ; . . . . he is just the kind of being you would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

At present, where for various reasons most persons in some circles in college are so careful never to express disapprobation at anything which may be said, the predominant moral tone of such circles is either puerile or disgraceful according as the students are viewed as boys or men. Now if...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUESTION AT ISSUE. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

"Yes," continued the young lady, "several gentlemen in '77 informed me that they did not consider the ordinary degree difficult enough, and so intended to spend another year in studying for something higher."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE SENIOR SAID. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

"Perhaps you are right, after all," said he; "I agree with what you say, in theory at least, though I doubt if it will hold in practice. But then I may be taking my own circumstances and ideas on the subject as belonging to us all. I went to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE SENIOR SAID. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »