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...Europe, where there is every thing to attract one? The idea is prevalent that it is very expensive, and that it is only possible for those who can afford to spend $500, or even more, as, indeed, most of those going for a summer think necessary. This is a great mistake, as a moderately careful man can go for the whole summer, and live comfortably for $250, which will cover all expenses. The price for a return ticket, on one of what are considered second-rate lines, is from $110 to $140. Among those which are cheap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLAN FOR THE SUMMER VACATION. | 2/25/1881 | See Source »

...door. "Suppose it's another postal for my chum announcing meeting of St. Paul's or Natural History Societies. No, by Jove! it's for me. Yes, I knew it would be a bill. Breakage at last dinner, $5." Lying down again on the sofa, I try to think of my thoughts. "Three days before that examination, and haven't opened a book, - that's refreshing. What can keep chum so long? Oh, that this cold snap hadn't snapped the neck off all my bottles of Apollinaris Water! Forensic due Wednesday, and haven't written a word yet. What...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL BROKE UP. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...have heard several complaints lately in different quarters about the Nine, and while we are not prepared to say that these complaints are either wholly true or wholly groundless, we think that it has grown altogether too much "the thing" to depreciate the Nine. Of course it inevitably follows, that after a college organization has been defeated for a year or two, the popular enthusiasm in its welfare is lessened. Men wish in the long run to stand by victory. But it seems to us none the less necessary that the College should do all in its power, by expressing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...cannot think of it without an indefinable personal sense of terror, as if what he that night saw was impending over the life of every man, a sword hung by a thread. To his keen, sharp, sensitive temperament an apparition truly tragic was anywhere possible. And the phantasm which appeared to Shelley shortly before his death came from reading a weird drama by Calderon, - a work so rare as to be wellnigh inaccessible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELF TO SELF. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...would not think, to see him walk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD BEAU. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »