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WHAT is this we have here? Is it alive? It is. Be Jawge, it is a Hawvawd Senyah, you know. Is he known by any other title? Yes-ah, he-ah is sometimes called a cultuahed gentleman-ah. Does he study Greek? I should-ah say that he did-ah. He pwayed in Oedipus-ah lawst yeah. What did he play? He pwayed the curtains up awnd down-ah. Joke ah! Ha-ha-ah? What makes him part his hair in the middle? Only a step-ah in the cawse of his development-ah. Development into what? Into womanhood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...came in with a column where a stick only was required. 'Do you desire a judicious elimination of the superfluous phraseology?' mildly returned the Harvard man. 'No! Boil it down!' thundered the city ed. The new man is gone now, - gone back to Boston. He says there ain't 'cultuah' enough in Philadelphia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS vs. HARVARD STUDENTS. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

...editorial capabilities of Harvard students, that is beside the question; yet we venture to assert that, in all the higher branches of journalism, a college education is becoming each year more and more indispensable, and that the "cultuah" upon which the Philadelphia Press so derisively frowns will, after all, win in the long race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS vs. HARVARD STUDENTS. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

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