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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Well, I had got on very well without advice through my Freshman year up to the time when the Elective Pamphlet came out, but then I was plunged in doubt as to what to take. It would have been easier if I had any tastes, but beyond ice-cream and soda, I don't think I have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FAIR ELECTION. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

...this time from the department headed "Yalensicula," will illustrate, if our other extracts nave failed to do so, the chaste diction of the Courant. Possibly apropos of the "Promenade," we are told that "she danced lovely - but she was engaged to the fellow who ate eight plates of ice-cream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

...Advocate, it may seem that the wit is exceedingly small and "sick." And so it must be confessed the greater part of it was; but the jokes were better to hear than to read, and of course an audience, for the most part excited by Adam's ale, ice-cream, and the sight of two quart bottles of champagne, was not calm enough to be very discriminating. As a rule, the essays were by no means equal to the subjects, but, fortunately, many of them were unheard on account of the numerous witticisms which the members volunteered, and indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PHI BETA KAPPA SUPPER. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

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