Word: afters
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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I was the victim of such a fellow once. He would drop in after breakfast, just to take a smoke, and as a matter of course read the morning paper first. Thinking possession as good as ownership, he appropriated my books without asking leave, and if in consequence of this...
On rising one morning I discovered that a letter had been pushed under my door. I hastened to it, picked it up, and quickly tore it open; the first line commenced "Dear Will." I hesitated, read three or four more lines, and became sensible of some mistake. I looked at...
Being under the necessity of purchasing some coal one day, I chanced to ask him, with a slight tinge of sarcasm in my voice, how much coal he had used this winter. He replied, "I have only about half a ton left." Some time after I happened to see one...
AT a meeting of the Executive Committee some four weeks ago, the Secretary was instructed to write to Yale, Brown, Williams, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Bowdoin, asking them if they would accept a challenge should one be offered. Up to present writing Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, and Brown have signified their willingness...
The number of illustrious men who in their undergraduate days contributed to college periodicals is by no means small. To these the student looks with reverence; and although it does not by any means follow that he who contributes frequently will attain an eminence equal to theirs in his after...