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...know of no more pleasant and useful way of passing a few hours of the vacation than by following the suggestion of the Secretary of the Class of '85 in regard to the class lives of Seniors. By many this is regarded as a useless custom, and few we think look upon it as an unalloyed pleasure. However, it is a duty or a pleasure, in which ever may it is regarded, which everyone ought to perform, and we hope the present Senior Class will be fully alive to the necessity of aiding the Secretary in this important branch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/22/1884 | See Source »

...noticed when I went to their annual "Phil" on Friday evening by invitation of a tempting "cousin." In addition to the ordinary slang of girlhood, their vocabulary is still further extended. I gazed wonderingly and rather vacuously perhaps when my cousin said: "Look at that cow. What do you think of its lace?" I could not see any cow, but only an extremely pretty girl with some transparent, interwoven. fluffy stuff around her neck. Later I found that in the Vassar girl's classification all males are "men," and all females "cows," with the usual intensive adjectives strung before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vassar Girl at College. | 12/20/1884 | See Source »

...from the back woods. Mr. Nicholas Emery who was than an assistant tutor in the academy-was made acquainted with young Webster's troubles, and as he had the management of the second or lower class, he treated his despondent pupil with marked kindness, and particularly urged him to think of nothing but his books and all would yet came out well. The advice was heeded, and at the end of the first quarter Mr. Emery mustered his class in line and formally taking young Webster's arm marched him from the foot to the extreme head of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Webste's Preparation for College. | 12/20/1884 | See Source »

...gladly think the best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Students' Position. | 12/19/1884 | See Source »

...kick Colonel out of the house on the occasion of his next call. A few days pass and Miss Crewel is hurried away in a carriage with Nostaw and the minister and married by the latter to the former. It was all a piece of jobbery, and we think that Miss Harvard Crewel was really cruelly treated to say nothing of Mr. Colonel, her true over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Reversible Story. | 12/19/1884 | See Source »