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YOUR winter clothes hang up in rows, in sad, defenceless fashion; while on these clothes voracious moths indulge their ruling passion. What wicked waste! Why not make haste-in manner most rococo-and ere they rot, sell out the lot to Barney Bennett-Poco? The order box for the elite, in Marks's shop-6 Holyoke street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 5/24/1898 | See Source »

YOUR winter clothes hang up in rows, in sad, defenceless fashion; while on these clothes voracious moths indulge their ruling passion. What wicked waste! Why not make haste-in manner most rococo-and are they rot, sell out the lot to Barney Bennett-Poco? The order box for the elite, in Marks's shop-6 Holyoke street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 5/23/1898 | See Source »

...fortify them we must assume a vast, expensive and unncessary armament; to leave them defenceless we will invite national dishonor and disgrace. As Carl Schurz has said, "our defensive position is today unassailable, and Hawaii would be our Achilles' heel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE WINS. | 12/4/1897 | See Source »

...Vesper service. He said that in the ancient times most cities used to be surrounded by strong walls. Cities without walls, however, were not very rare, and they were often full of beautiful works of art, and their citizens famous in oratory and literature, but these were the defenceless cities, open on all sides to the attacks of enemies. It is just the same with human souls; those alone are secure from temptations which are well enclosed in a wall of moral courage and right. A man has no right to enter college, no right to enter the world unless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vesper Service. | 12/5/1890 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - As matters stand now, the reserved seats on Holmes Field are almost unbearable on a pleasant day on account of the way in which the sun beats down on the defenceless heads of the spectators, so that the whole south side of the field is a perfect furnace for the whole of the afternoon, and the north side is equally as bad until five o'clock. Now these reserved seats are meant originally and chiefly for ladies, and ought therefore to have some pretence to comfort beyond that of having numbers painted on them at intervals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/3/1886 | See Source »

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