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...visit of about forty Harvard freshmen in a body to the theatre, about a week ago, is probably the expiring gasp of a custom long prevalent. They conducted themselves quietly, and made little attempt to make the proceeding a class affair. It is believed that this is the death of the last of the practices kindred to hazing and sign stealing. - [N. Y. Post...
...News announces the following new books, which it says are not issued in the "Seaside Library." "Two Years Behind the Mast, or Life in a Barn." By Oscar Simpson. "Gully's Revenge, or a Tale of the Crossing." Author unknown. "The Drugged Doughnut, or Three Buckets of Blood." By Gasp Hard. "The Mad Butcher, or The Fate of a Yale Tutor." By the author of "Beautiful Snow." "The Dumb Singer or The Warped Tooth Brush." By Hic. Cough...
...noble self-abandon, his untutored emotion, overcame me. I could only gasp, "Don't squeeze my hand too hard, my gallant preserver. I am a simple, guileless maiden, and I cannot tell; but - papa wouldn't mind, I guess...
...thou?" I gasp out to the vision...
...noiseless, makes its way; one gasp, - one last