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Sport I have heard this pastime called. Well, yes, it did furnish a good deal of sport to my host's pretty daughter. I now think that the taste for this amusement must be cultivated, and somebody else will have to cultivate mine considerably before I again allow it to make of me a walking clothes-line and unabridged dictionary of profanity combined. Simple Simon was a young Solomon when he chose his mother's pail for his fish-pond. The rest of my visit was more pleasantly devoted to the hammock, the pretty daughter, and the sketch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PISCATORIAL. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

...Leaves comes with accounts of Commencement week that make us wish we had been there to hear. There is something extremely lady-like, not to say girl-like, about this paper; and the suggestion of the editors that "it is fast becoming quite respectable to remain single," makes us think that in all probability proposals to all of the editorial board would be in order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

...favorite photograph of Mary Anderson. Do you wonder that I fell into a gloomy train of thought? 'This Class Day,' said I to myself, as I looked down upon the throng below, 'is a resting-point in a man's life, - a day which makes him forget to think about the future, and leads him to look back upon the years that are gone. And who can look back without a pang? who can recall, without bitter regrets, the pleasant days and kind faces that he has known? Ah! fair Class-Day revellers, your mirth only saddens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN UNDERGRADUATE'S CLASS DAY. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

Again, don't think it absolutely necessary to smoke and frequent the theatre to excess, and drink to the injury of your health. Temperance is not wholly out of date here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMANIA. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

JUDGING only from the reports that have come to us through the daily newspapers, one would think that the chances of Harvard winning the approaching race are not very good. We are happy, however, to be able to state that the facts in the case do not warrant such a conclusion. Yale, to be sure, has a much better crew in some respects than that of last year. The men are heavier, taller, and row in better form; but they are all new men except three, - a fact greatly in our favor, and one that superficial writers in making their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD-YALE RACE. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »