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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although the college jester may have applied Motley's phrase, "a sheet of infinite platitude," to some of the recent numbers of the Advocate,-and what magazine does not have its gay and its dull days?- certain it is that good old mother Advocate has succeeded in hammering several "golden grains of wit" into the issue of her estimable paper which appears today. It is one of the best of the numbers of this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 3/31/1891 | See Source »

Naturally, after their warfare, we should be interested in the funerals of great heroes, which were very imposing and extensive. After burning the bodies on large funeral pyres covered with offerings of all sorts, the ashes were collected in a golden urn for preservation. Then followed athletic contests of all sorts, with which the ceremonies closed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Seymour's Lecture on "Life in Homeric Times." | 3/26/1891 | See Source »

Professor G. L. Kittredge will deliver the address at the 73rd anniversary of the Golden Branch Literary Society at Exeter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/27/1891 | See Source »

LOST.- Copy of Palgrave's Golden Treasury, marked in Index of first lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 1/17/1891 | See Source »

...back on suffering are the evil extremes. We should be happy, as it is what Christ wishes us to be, but never shirk an unpleasant task or be callous to the cries of suffering. As a man hopes for happiness in a future life let him hold to the golden mean between such extremes as these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 10/27/1890 | See Source »

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