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...surely can offer a reasonable objection. The scramble for the flowers is boyish nonsense, it may be said, and unworthy the dignity of Seniors. To a certain extent this charge is true; but is it so unbecoming to play the boy for a few moments before we separate to take our places in the world as men? The costumes which this exercise compels us to don are often quaint, if not handsome, and at least offer some relief to the eye from the dress-suits worn the rest of the day. The mock affection of the embraces can hardly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AROUND THE TREE. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...BALTZLY has arrived, and has begun to take the Class photographs. Members of the Senior Class may make appointments for sittings with any of the Class Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...another in this world of love and sunshine, it is going to a college mixed. Smiles, sugar, and soothing-syrup, serenades and sadness, study nothing, go among 'em, everything. The old fashion of "going it alone" is played out for the better one of "going it double." Some may take their education "straight," but as for me, "give me 'mix,' or give me nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

...popular actress or two - probably Rosina Vokes, and some loose character in tights - on their mantelpieces, they have paid attention enough to aesthetics. They appear to regard pictures, and decorations in general, as convenient inventions to fill bare walls; they appear to decorate their rooms, if they take the trouble to decorate them at all, with little more appreciation and intelligence than were used by the wealthy gentleman who purchased his library by the pound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICTURES AND SO FORTH. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

...showing them that public opinion would not be so violently opposed to such an improvement as is generally thought. At any rate, I do not think that we need fear what outsiders will think, if we are sure that we are doing what is right, and take proper care to let our reasons be known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHAPLAINCY. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »