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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SOME years ago Professor Harman was explaining to a darkey in Piney Woods the cause of the eclipses of the sun and moon. Listening awhile, he exclaimed: "That's what they told me at home, but I did not believe them; for I thought if God created those things, he would make them run clear...

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

...common with the Yale Record, the Yale Courant, and the Advocate, we have failed to meet the approval of the Cornell Times. We suppose there is nothing left for us all but death. The Times, certainly, has plenty of bodies to mangle. It reminds us of the darkey's explanation of the miracle. "Why," said he, "five thousand loaves and seven thousand fishes were divided among the twelve Apostles. Miracle was, they did n't bust!" Though, to be sure, it is rather blasphemous to compare the twelve Apostles with the Editors of the Cornell Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

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