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By this system every goody employed would know that her wages depended on the efficiency of her labor, and she would then attempt to do something besides breaking mantel-ornaments and putting ashes on the floor, which at present are about the only traces which she leaves of her presence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CURE FOR AN OLD EVIL. | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

To review separately each of the charges of hypocrisy, and to endeavor to find out how many of the statements in the Lampoon were too strong would take too much space and time. There is, however, at the close of the list of accusations, a singular statement. The Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST STRAW. | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

"9th, Tuesday. - We started out to go to Cambridge, lying to the N. E. of Boston, in order to see their college and printing-office. We left abt. 6 o'k in the morning, and were set across the river at Charlestown. We reached Cambridge abt. 8 o'k. It...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLY SCHOLARSHIP AT HARVARD. | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

Still I cannot but feel that a large part of the lack of interest is caused by the unfortunate choice of subjects. Undoubtedly, to the fledgling's eye, there is something very picturesque and poetic in a fading daisy, but as long as your readers refuse to see it, you...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR BARDS. | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

Something might be done by altering the limits which divide the territories of the various clubs, but this would after all be but a superficial remedy. It is true that, since the Hollis fire, the Holyoke constituency is more than three times that of Holworthy; but to transfer members from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOAT-CLUB SYSTEM. | 2/11/1876 | See Source »