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...know so much about dreams that we may make them to order; and that the dream book will have vanished, except from the work basket of some aged country maiden of seventy years or more, or from the casket of some boarding school miss, where it will lie amid complexion powders, scented stationery and love-letters...
...things continue to so at the pace they are going at present, Oxonians who went down in 1880 will be unable to recognize the face of their Alma Mater in 1890. She is not only changing her normal complexion, but also her physical features most rapidly. Four new buildings of importance have sprung up within the last two years. The most important, the new school, is yet in an unfinished state, Magdalen and Trinity are greatly extending themselves, and a new college is nearly completed which will work great results in bringing old-fashioned Oxford up to date...
...opinions of all the candidates, and hopes to make them known to the public. This suggestion seems to us quite opportune. With such a large majority of the members of the board of overseers in favor of compulsory prayers, it will take some years, at least, to change the complexion of that body, even if all the new men each year should be advocates of "voluntary prayers." Every effort should be made to get the right men nominated, and then the nominees should be supported at the polls on Commencement Day. The younger graduates should wake up to the issue...
Harvard College loses a picturesque figure by the death of Professor Sophocles, who, in personal appearance and habits, was a veritable type of the antique. Gray and hirsute, his dark complexion and piercing eyes gave him a weird aspect, and he passed his days and nights in one corner of a college dormitory in lone communion with the spiders which he was wont to feed and cherish, and the tomes in which the lore of old Hellas was entombed, many of whose graces and beauties were visible to no eye within the academic shades as they were to his. Reserved...
Color of hair, eyes, beard? Complexion? Style of beauty...