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...pond, sunning themselves, or leaped and plunged and frolicked in the shallow water, showing as unmistakable signs of fun as kittens show in their play. Their actions were very droll, and the shrill chorus of little voices that grew in number as the sun sloped to the west, was extremely pleasant to hear. They are, perhaps, of the same stock as the ancient Greek frogs; at any rate, they performed the very music written by the old master of comedy - "brek-e-kek-ex-co-ax-co-ax - brek-e-kek-ex-co-ax-co-ax." - [Cambridge Tribune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/5/1882 | See Source »

...horrible tragedy occurred yesterday forenoon in West Somerville, in which Edward R. Prescott, a retired merchant, murdered his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Russel. Violent domestic troubles caused the affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 4/21/1882 | See Source »

Such is the strange delusion of an esteemed contemporary. If we have ever done aught to foster and encourage it, we repent of our action. How we can ever set our friends in the West to rights in this matter we do not know; but henceforward such will be our only aim and study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/20/1882 | See Source »

...college papers of the West are advocating increased attention to cricket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 4/17/1882 | See Source »

...religious paper in the West throws up its hands in horror at the ungodliness of Eastern students. "Nineteen hundred panes of glass," says one of them, "have been broken by Yale students in the two years the Woolsey was president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 4/17/1882 | See Source »