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Brutal, gashed, and swollen faces; wide gaping mouths, which opened for the last time to utter the death-shriek, and are now fixed forever in rigid agony; jagged, discolored teeth, sunken cheeks, knitted brows, dead, sodden eyes, awful contortions, ghastly smiles, hideous leers, faces of men and faces of women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

We consider it our duty to take some notice of the fact that yesterday was according to all historical accounts the anniversary of the birthday of George Washington. In the absence of the fire-escape exhibition of last year the college found itself somewhat at a loss how suitably to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/23/1884 | See Source »

The majestic figure of Homer is treated as the Greeks treated the figure of Jove. The grand head has heavy clustering hair and beard, the mighty chest is bare to the waist. The figure is seen in full face, the attitude is self-reliant, commanding, king-like. A staff is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW HARVARD WINDOW. | 10/19/1883 | See Source »

"The other day I marked 98 deg. in the shade, my high-water mark. I happened to meet a neighbor ; so we mopped our brows at each other ; he told me he had just cleared 100 deg., and I went home a beaten man. I might suspect his thermometer (as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 10/25/1882 | See Source »

TO THE EDITORS OF THE HERALD : I don't know whether there is really any use in spoiling a good story; but then there is no harm in accuracy, and the papers lately, you know, have been somewhat inaccurate in their statements and conclusions on the freshman Music Hall affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1882 | See Source »

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