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There, also, was the group of girls who went alone, and looked down, from the heights of the hard student, on the handsome girls of their class who sallied to the party in company with the unexplained representative of his sex, man. There also, pitiable in the eyes of her...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "How Young They Are." | 12/22/1916 | See Source »

Ah, the book? Yes, the book was pretty evasive, like all well-behaved comic opera librettos. A princess, dwelling in a land where thinness is held to be a vice, proves an eyesore to her noble parent because she has not been able to acquire sufficient avoirdupois to be accounted...

Author: By T. P. S., | Title: New Plays in Boston | 11/15/1911 | See Source »

There are so many who aspire to be Daniel Websters, and Edwin Forests, and Phillips Brooks's, that it is almost to be feared the supply may ultimately come to exceed the demand. The examples of such men too often tend to mislead the rising generation, who aim at the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Irving's Address. | 3/16/1894 | See Source »

The Lehigh Burr discusses the effect of faculty interference on athletics, remarking that, "Athletics seem to claim more of the time of faculties, at the present day, than more distinctively collegiate topics. The Harvard faculty gleefully writhes in accumulating evidence of the immoral tendencies of foot-ball, and prohibits its...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 3/9/1885 | See Source »

The following comments on the personnel of the Harvard crew are given : "Curtis, slender, intellectual of countenance, as becomes a true Bostonian, who proved last year that a man may lack avoirdupois, wear eye-glasses, and yet row a splendid race, sets the crew a beautiful stroke. Behind him the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, YALE, COLUMBIA. | 6/23/1882 | See Source »

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