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Putting our hand into our drawer, we next chance on a piece in blank-verse. Perhaps it would be well enough to give its title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EDITOR'S DRAWER. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...PROFESSOR in the Cornell University (a graduate of Harvard) is going abroad, in an official position, accompanied by his wife, in December. Any gentleman who would like to intrust a son to such care, for study and travel, will please address, "Professor," Drawer 29, Ithaca, N. Y. References: Hon. J. M. Francis, Minister to Greece, Professors Peabody and Gurney, Cambridge, Mass., President A. D. White, Cornell University, Professor A. L. Wheeler, Yale College, Professor H. L. Eddy, Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...thought a ballet-troupe in distress, but I afterwards found that it was only a group of Dr. Dio Lewis's pupils. A big man, in a choker coming up to his ears, and no cravat, told me, in a hollow voice, to put my valuables in a little drawer and to hang the key around my neck. I had always understood that the Turks were low robbers at home, but I had no idea they retained that character in climes so distant from their own. My valuables were with difficulty crammed into the limited space, and I followed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TURKISH BATH. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

...place. The College Carpenter, closely scrutinizing the recitation-room in order to find something which would increase the "General Average" fund, happened upon a very neat piece of workmanship. The room was the recitation-room of a Professor in Metaphysics. A sort of little drawer had been fitted in the back of a seat in such a manner that the work could hardly be detected; applying a chisel, it was opened, a penny and piece of paper were found; the latter bore the following: "Transmittendum. Whereas our instructor is fully persuaded he does not exist, he must 'see through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRANSMITTENDA. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

NOAH. Look here, sir! Don't you know it's against the rule to take those cards from the drawer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

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