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...sparring will be good, as it always is, if there is no slugging shown. And we would like to beg the crowd to refrain from any ejaculations when a well-aimed and telling blow takes effect. These customary expressions of approval are entirely out of place, and are apt to "rattle" the contestants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/19/1887 | See Source »

...period of the year is at hand when every college is holding its winter meetings; those of Harvard are near at hand, and naturally we expect them to be as successful this year as they have proved in the past. There is one suggestion, however, which we beg to offer the management. If the experience of former years is any criterion on which to base our opinions, there will be the usual crush at the entrance. The management ought not to forget this, but should open the doors earlier than is customary and let him be served best who comes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/8/1887 | See Source »

Dear sirs:- My attention has been called to an article in your issue of Nov. 8th inst., which purports to be an account of my wedding. I beg leave to state that the above event is entirely unknown to me and single blessedness I still enjoy. By inserting the above, you will correct an error and materially aid the chances of one still a bachelor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 11/24/1886 | See Source »

...train thundered past, cast the broken lantern into the locomotive caboose and cry "hold her!" The engineer heard the cry and stopped the engine just before the slide. In applying the anecdote Mr. Moody said with great earnest, "I cast a broken lantern at your feet this evening and beg you to hear the warning." Mr. Moody's words were forcible and practical throughout and must have stirred many a man to the very bottom of his nature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Sermon by Mr. Moody. | 11/22/1886 | See Source »

...have subscribed are expected to take the copies which they have engaged as provision has thus been made. We beg our subscribers to pardon the delay incurred in the delivery of the CRIMSON of yesterday, as the delay was unavoidable, on account of the extremely limited printing facilities in Cambridge. The paper will be duly delivered this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/10/1886 | See Source »

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