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Tom is a returning prodigal. He wonders if the old prodigal in the parable would have been pardoned quite as readily if he had been attended by a retinue of unpaid bills. Dick, likewise, is as sad as twilight. He took a hand with Dan Cupid last summer, and won...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOMUM. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

THE articles that have lately appeared in the Advocate and Crimson discussing Harvard Indifference and The Influence of the Nation have excited more warm discussion in College circles, it would seem, than any other articles published here this year. In our number to-day will be found two contributions on...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

THE Purdue is so exquisitely conceited that we had intended to leave it for a while unnoticed. An article on "Politeness" which appeared in the last number is so interesting a commentary upon the manners, if not upon the morals, of Indiana that we really think it worth quoting. It...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

Bidding a truce to dates, Christ Hospital was founded three hundred years ago by the boy-king Edward VI., in a large monastery whose inmates had been driven out in the hostile reign of bluff King Hal. Starting with 350 scholars, it has now 1200; but it is not a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO OLD SCHOOLS. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

THE last Record thinks Harvard is conceited about her foot-ball rules, calls our Nine the Bostons' "playthings," and thinks that Yale had better secure the services of Professor Goodwin when he returns from France. Leave of absence, not resignation, little Record.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

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