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...Prevention of Cruelty to Children was a complainant in the Harlem Police Court recently against a little Italian boy named Giacinto Conzoni, whom he charged with picking cigar stumps and old tobacco quids from the streets. When the boy was asked by the magistrate what he did with the stuff, he said that he sold it to a man who made cigarettes and plug chewing tobacco of it. The boy was committed to the Catholic Protectory...
...settled by my paternal parent. But I would like to ask a few questions concerning the quality of the board, and the manner in which it is served. Why is it that when a person orders toast, for instance, he cannot have warm toast, instead of some stuff that tastes as if it had been toasted several days before? Why is it that if a person happens to arrive a few minutes after half-past-five he has to eat cold vegetables or none? And why is it that if a person orders a steak, or some griddle-cakes, they...
...have good cause to feel proud of our Football Team. Our games last year with the Torontos showed good stuff; but the Team this year is stronger than then. - The University, Ann Arbor...
These are the worst specimens of student poetry, and I wonder why the editors of the college papers ever let them get into their columns. If such as these appear in print, what stuff must the editorial waste-baskets contain! Undergraduate poets seem to have a poor command of language, and this gives rise to repetitions, and gives an air of awkwardness and carelessness to many of their compositions; we often find words put in merely for rhymes or to fill out the stanza, and a general lack of careful revision is painfully evident. I have noticed that the last...
Which are but silly stuff...