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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Resolved, That, while we his classmates, in common with his many other friends, share in the loss sustained by his death, we feel that this blow has fallen with peculiar force upon ourselves, to whom he has endeared himself by his many talents, and as a genial companion and a warm and true friend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALFRED HENRY JONES. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

...University Foot-Ball Club begin the season with vigor. At a recent meeting, Mr. Prince, '75, was elected Secretary and Treasurer. There will be games every afternoon on the Common. Matches will soon be played between '74 and '75, and with Tufts College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

...good horse. The students gave him the name of Yankee Jon. Yankee became a by-word to denote a silly, awkward person, and being carried from college was thus circulated through the country, and was at length taken up and applied as a cant-word to New-Englanders in common, bearing with it a tinge of reproach, and has ultimately come to be used by foreigners in mentioning Americans when they wish to speak disparagingly of us. What word now in use among us will ever attain such a wide-spread fame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE NOMENCLATURE. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

...great number, one following another in such rapid succession that the mind is unable to digest any of them, but just as Cambridge water poured through a sieve, they leave only the more prominent facts behind, while much that is of real value is lost. The practice so common of reading all the new publications is of no real value except to enable one to maintain the position of a literary connoisseur, in appearance at least, and is only a superficial knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MULTUM IN PARVO. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

Happier far are common mortals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIAPOUS. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

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