Word: strayed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...even one thrust at the swaggering Sophomore with his new pipe. The centre page well illustrates a real phase of Freshman life and some of the other sketches are creditable. Perhaps the most successful attempt is a take-off on the poetry of Kipling and his admirers. Several stray hits are scattered throughout the number and a wandering member of the University is welcomed back and his exploits rehearsed in a manner truly dazzling and wonderful, but scarcely appreciable by the college at large...
WIRT ROBINSON, 1st Lt., 4th U. S. Artillery.ENGLISH 7.- Reading of Philips. Pastorals I, III, IV. The Stray Nymph. The Happy Swain. Songs: "From White's and Will's" "Why we love, and why we hate." To Miss Margaret Pulteney. To Miss Charlotte Pulteney. To Miss Georgiana, Youngest Daughter to Lord Carteret...
...building which is to receive the telescope will be of stout stone walls, without windows, to protect the instrument against stray missiles in times of insurrection. The dome will be a light skeleton covered with canvas. The absence of frost and snow renders this possible...
...College Kodaks have been supplanted by "Atrabilia. Being stray leaves from the note book of a cynic who reformed on attaining his majority." The change in the name is interesting, but the ten "stray leaves" do not show any marked improvement over the Kodaks. Though none of them attempt to be humorous, several are very pleasing. The other prose articles are "Aunt Mary," by G. B. Philbrook, and two sketches by H. B. Eddy; one of the latter being an unnecessary contribution to the literature of Adam...
...number is unusually rich in fiction. Besides good installments of "Sweet Bells Out of Tune" and "Benefits Forgot" there are three or four interesting short stories, The Balcony Stories" the best of which is "The Miracle Chapel," "The Professor's Aberration" and others. A very interesting article is "Stray Leaves from a Whaleman's Log"; it is a collection of whaling stories with a description of the general methods of whaling. An article worthy of the attention of everyone is "A Voice of Russia" by Pierre Botkine, the secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington. In a few words...