Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"MOONSHINE," published by Cupples Upham and Co. of Boston, price one dollar, is the maiden work of F. A. Tupper, a recent graduate of Harvard. The book is a tale of the reconstruction period at the South. and reminds one in its general character of some of Judge Turgee's...
Harvard men who are intending to go abroad next summer, will do well, before they make up their minds irrevocably to the step, to pause and read the following statement upon the evils of foreign travel, taken from an article in one of the German magazines. It is written, of...
maker, if one were only possessed of an invisible cloak. The coalscuttle which has done duty for three generations of undergraduates is palmed off as "the very last purchis which Mr. Blank made, and he was a real gentleman he was, and behaved like one." Mr. Blank- the real gentleman...
the days when he was young, when there was not a man living could throw him in the ring. When these rural sports were of a character in which the parson and squire could take part, they flourished. The tangible honor to be won rarely consisted of more than a...
The editorial in a revert issue of the Yale News urging the freshman to show that they "possess the necessary amount of Yale sand," seems to us at least superfluous. The Yale foot ball game has been distinguished among college sports for its rather too sandy character. -[Vassar Miscellany.