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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ready, and the Faculty's party, five in number, who, for three hours, were to resist all comers, were at their posts. Each of them had a separate pavilion where he awaited the arrival of challengers. These pavilions were fitted up with the utmost magnificence. Silk, satin, and cloth of gold dazzled the eye, and the blue of heaven - the color of the Faculty - shone on every side. First and nearest to the throne of Prince Presistrardin * was the tent of the famous and redoubtable knight, Sir Triangle de Rhombus. His well-knit though slender and youthful frame was encased...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACT FROM "THE NEW IVANHOE." | 2/25/1881 | See Source »

...middle of a ten-acre lot, around which were a number of buildings, one or two of which had a painfully familiar look, as if they were the ghosts of former friends. My interlocutor was a young man of eighteen or so, elegantly attired in a suit of white cloth of a peculiar texture. On his right sleeve was what I at once recognized as a Tabular View, on his left a College Directory, on the back of his coat was the seal of Harvard in crimson; he wore a cap on which appeared the number 2004. From this last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GHOSTLY FUTURITIES." | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

...wear something flowing?" I mildly suggested that I had nothing in that line except a dressing-gown, and that I had not undertaken to make a guy of myself. So the class proceeded to array me in various garments belonging to the studio. A piece of embroidered mummy cloth was draped artistically over me, like a Roman toga; a sort of parti-colored cap, like those found in snapping crackers, was placed on my head; and my feet were wound up in a Turkey rug. I felt like a fool; but the class looked satisfied and that was the main...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALMOST A STATUE. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

...elegant edition of the Recorder, bound in crimson cloth, containing all the rules, superbly illustrated with magnificent colored cuts of the Gymnasium, the big dumbbell, view of the dressing-room by moonlight, and portrait of the Director, has recently been published by Mauzis Khan (Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIT OF PAPER. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

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