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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Resolved, That his modest and unassuming character, his obliging manner and spirit, and his never-failing geniality, have endeared him to all who knew him.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/18/1875 | See Source »

The loss of two others of their number in the short year since their graduation lent additional solemnity, if possible, to the meeting held by the class of 1874 at the Parker House on the 16th, upon the announcement of the sudden death of one of their members. In the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/18/1875 | See Source »

Character. - Decidedly aggressive. General who-yer-look'n'-at air. Strong sense of freedom and equality of all American citizens, - negroes and social inferiors excepted. Fondness for sporting, especially billiards and dog-fancying. Always ready to bet, - particularly if in possession of facts not known to general public. Astonishing stomachic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNEMIDOLOGY. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

Knemidology may to-day be brought to bear upon female equestrians. If the bloomer costume be introduced, the new science will be as applicable to women as to men; and this is to me a strong argument in favor of the proposed innovations in female attire. But, even supposing the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNEMIDOLOGY. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

HARVARD men are certainly as fond of social pleasures as the men of any other college; but it seems to me that this would hardly be evident to an outsider, from our ways of manifesting our tastes in this direction. We have, to be sure, a few purely social societies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCIALITY. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

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