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...were in a poorer condition. The Crimson, then a fortnightly, kept constantly bringing the attention of the authorities and students to the subject and even started a subscription to remedy the evil. This move was stopped by the college authorities, but the next fall when the students returned they beheld a new brick sidewalk running around most of the quadrangles. No one will say that the efforts of the paper were useless in this case. This winter it seems as if the walks were worse than ever; but in reality the same state of inefficiency has existed ever since they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1884 | See Source »

...very proper freshmen attended the performance at the Boston Museum last evening, occupying three front rows of the orchestra chairs. With a fearful and blushing consciousness of their own wickedness, about forty very meek and very proper freshmen from time to time during the performance furtively glanced around, and beheld the eyes of some fifteen or twenty upper class men narrowly watching them. Not a sound was heard, however, but silently and stealthily, at the close of the performance, these freshmen glided from the scene of their terrible orgy, and emerged under the frosty starlight of Scollay square. With loudly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN AT THE THEATRE. | 10/27/1882 | See Source »

...election was the scandal they thought would be caused by the spectacle of his going out to Harvard College on commencement day to receive his LL. D., followed by a roaring mob of vicious and illiterate followers. Many old Bostonians have felt as if this scene, if they ever beheld it, would kill them. They will now feel easier, for they see that, if elected, his appearance at the old university will be simply the triumph of a cultured conscience over the temptations and trials of American life and of the application to public affairs by an elderly lawyer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/23/1882 | See Source »

Clutching with the other; she beheld his eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILVER CHALICE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...jumped into the carriage and drove towards the expectant company of ladies. I had said nothing about them, and so when he alighted at the piazza and beheld that extended array of femininity, his soul sank within him and the gift of articulate speech was gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLIGHTLY THE WRONG MAN. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

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