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Dates: during 1870-1879
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We have become thoroughly out of patience with "the thing," - it is so vague and unsatisfactory, - and have determined to leave off trying to discover what it is, and to devote ourselves to grinding for the semiannuals.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE THING." | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

"A glimmer up the road, indistinguishable at first from that of a star in the horizon; now scintillating, now increasing. A faint hum ! a louder and a louder whir! A blaze of light, a screech, a stop, and I am conscious that the express is there, and has pulled up...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TENDER STORY. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

THE Acta Columbiana contains a long letter advocating the use of Latin Composition. We would suggest that an elementary course in Latin Literature would also be useful, at least to the Editors of the Acta. If these gentlemen were to begin the study of Horace's Odes, they would discover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

THIS is the time of year when any of our exchanges are filled with accounts of preparations for the intercollegiate contests. Although Harvard has never felt inclined to enter these contests, she has not been uninterested in them. The judges have invariably been men who have acquired a reputation in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/26/1877 | See Source »

To discover what are all the latent psychological causes of Seventy-seven's present imbroglio in reference to Class Day, will require the skill of some future writer who has brought the historical method down to a finer point of "coldness" than I can now boast of; but this is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WORD TO SEVENTY-EIGHT. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

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