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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...funny friend wants to know if the two policemen who were summoned to the late fire in Little's Block were called in to arrest the progress of the flames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/26/1875 | See Source »

...rising snicker was soon checked by the expression on the Pontifical countenance. Slightly troubled, Antonelli deprecatingly inquired if his venerable friend could n't take a joke; and, as the Pope was beginning to mutter something very much resembling an excommunication "published for general distribution," a sympathizing chorus of inquiries arose, and hopes that no bones were broken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW JOHN POLHEMUS BECAME A CARDINAL. | 3/26/1875 | See Source »

...reader among the literary circles of Cambridge, and has acquired a reputation by public readings elsewhere; he is to be assisted by C. H. Kloman in one selection from Shakspere. The vocal music is by D. M. Babcock, '77, and among others he is to give "King Macbeth," "Friend of the Brave," and an "Aria from Don Giovanni...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/26/1875 | See Source »

...WHAT brought you to prison, my colored friend?" said a Yankee to a negro. "Two constables, sah." "Yes, but I mean, had intemperance anything to do with it?" "Yes, sah, dey was bof drunk." - Vassar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

...almost English system of our Commons be defaced by so superannuated an Americanism as the enforcement (to the extent of the Faculty's power) of total abstinence? Our climate may not make ale or cider necessary for all, but illness certainly makes it helpful to some, and a friend of ours was advised by a physician on the Corporation to take, as the very best tonic, a pint of porter daily at dinner. At the Hall this is forbidden. We would trouble no man's conscience, and while there are among us those brought up in the "most straitest sect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

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