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...minutes after Guy Guileless, '82, might have been seen seated at a table in his room with a number of friends, all using Gaskell's Compendium by the light of a philosophical Argand burner. There is a gentle knock at the door, and the "lady-like" janitoress leaves a freshly washed bundle of linen and departs. Before long Guy's friends leave him and he is alone with the Compendium. With a light heart he prepares to retire, humming softly to himself as he forms plans for the morrow. Ah, better for him had that morrow never dawned! After wrapping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CO-EDUCATIONAL INCIDENT. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAISY SPRUCEWELL'S ROMANCE. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

...guileless Freshman is seen inquiring the way to the Secretary's office or to Carl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

...very uncertain basis, does not seem to warrant the discouraging article in the Advocate of last week. We should think that Mr. Blakie would hardly foreclose this spring, if there was a reasonable chance of getting the rest of his money in the autumn ; and the coming of the guileless Freshman, like the first bird of spring, may be a forerunner of better times for the House Clubs. With this in view, and the expenditure of a little more energy on the part of the club secretaries, we think boating matters will be found to be in a fair condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

Alas, we were mistaken. On the evening of so-called Bloody Monday a party of sportive Sophomores, led by some powerful motive, such as the love of "roughing" or the desire for free beer, sallied forth in quest of the guileless Freshman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESPECTABILITY vs. ROWDYISM. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

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