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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which runs throughout the volume and which is credited to Everett, is conducted with much spirit through its long course. I cannot describe it; it is rambling and incoherent and professedly a local satire. It is in heroic couplets, and Mr. J. Lowbard is its titular author. To display its character I need only quote parts of the argument of one book, which treats of "The arts of rising in the world - Marriage - Poetry - Dolphins - Geese - British Cruisers - Spithead - Aphorisms of two kinds, sharp and flat...
...Sorosis wore a black velvet walking suit and pearl-colored gloves. (Just here I should very much like to know why it is that women with too much figure or no figure at all invariably choose to display their ample or awkward proportions in that most indiscreet material - black velvet.) I have often thought that some of these idiosyncrasies of dress were owing to the smallness of our mirrors. We can only see the bust in the looking-glass, and the consequence is that not only women, but men, also, are apt to wear a fortune in diamonds and other...
...have been accommodated in the numerous vacant seats forward, from which they were, however, excluded - for what reason it is unknown. The people were crowded and restricted, and, from the noise and flurry, a stranger might have imagined there was going to be, perhaps, a wedding, or some public display. The services, with some exceptions, were quite lacking in impressiveness, and, in some instances, were insufferably dull and without the glow of feeling that should have been an attendant inspiration on such an occasion. The fetid atmosphere, the mediocre character of the exercises, and the suffering humanity, made this...
...trousers, too, would certainly have been too wide and our coats too long if it were not for a conspicuous, not to say indecent, display of trouserings made by certain other of our friends...
...account of the number of students who have entered the Scientific School since October) that the Scientific is numerically as strong as either the Divinity or the Theological schools. It seems to me that the Cooperative Society will need help from every available source, and that it failed to display foresight when it repelled the cooperation of a considerable institution, which is now making a most rapid growth...