Word: geyser
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interest. We beg leave to inform the journals mentioned below, that our increasing collegiate duties prevent our giving that time to the perusal of their columns which they doubtless merit: College Courier, College Journal, Central Collegian, Indiana Student, Asbury Review, Lehigh Journal, Qui Vive, University Reporter, University Missourian, Geyser, University Press, Alumni Journal, Annalist, Southern Collegian...
...devote two thirds of their space to reviewing first-class periodicals, and append a list of such "exchanges," ought to be congratulated on having worked up to the higher plane of literature. Don't howl "sour grapes." They must be regarded as only a little above Dryden Springs Gazette. - Geyser...
...Geyser opens with a homely appeal from "Uncle Ike" to close the "hell-holes," or, in Cambridge vernacular, beer saloons, and follows it up with a heart-rending wail over tobacco; having, apparently, just discovered that its use is "alarmingly prevalent." It tells the following sad story: "We were visited lately by a young man from town, seven years old, the son of respectable parents, who is an inveterate tobacco-chewer, and has been such for over a year." Verily, if that is the state of affairs there, we cheerfully overlook the grammar, and add a few quarts...
...assurances to its officers that their supplications have been heard. To those 'seeking a sign,' both the recent gift and numerous others from the same source afford the strongest evidence of Divine assistance. Nor could Professor Tyndall's elaborate theory be more admirably refuted than by these wonderful proofs." - Geyser...