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Dates: during 1873-1873
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If such writers would confine themselves to prose, the result would generally be an excellent and harmonious style, which would charm by its melody, and surprise by the introduction of poetic thoughts, which, though not in themselves sufficient to constitute a poem, would still greatly enhance the beauty of prose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WORD ABOUT POETRY. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

Tempora mutantur. No man rejoiced more at the abolition of hazing than myself, for it seemed a brutal and senseless custom. But that I, a member of the class of '75, which instituted this reform, should suffer this humiliation at the hands of the haughty class of '77, - that I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARDS. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

The outrage which I have narrated, and which suggested this course of reasoning, is a good test of its correctness. For if hazing is a bad thing, we should naturally expect that the consequences of its abolition would not be disastrous. And what do we see? Why, that members of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARDS. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

No sooner are the pencil-marks obliterated from our fingers and cuffs, and no sooner are the piles of blue books safe in the hands of the dread examiner, revealing, by their deficiencies, awful tales of nights at Carl's and the Howard, than, instead of being harassed by dire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LONG VACATION. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

The objects of a vacation are recreation and recuperation, and they must be sought in novelty, spiced with a little excitement; and if, by way of change, we can acquire some new accomplishment, or do a little solid reading, we need not consider this an encroachment on our period of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LONG VACATION. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

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