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Second, A late edition will be issued at nine in the evening, in order to publish, for the information of all whom it may concern, a list of the students who have gone to Boston to spend the evening. Their names will be easily procured from car-conductors, hackmen, pocos, and other trustworthy sources...
...hackmen revel in happiness, the benevolent shop-keeper presents a countenance wreathed with smiles, the ancient washerwomen stand around in public places, and, uplifting their skinny hands, call down all sorts of blessings on our heads. "Yes, the 'stoodints' have certainly come. Waiter-girls smirk, boarding-school girls smirk, New Haven girls smirk, even one or two less-anile-than-usual washerwomen have been observed to smirk; in short, New Haven is one great mouth on a grin. And we are all up a notch...
After the concert the settees were removed, and a very pleasant dance was improvised, at the close of which the club were invited to the house of a gentleman near by and handsomely entertained. After remaining there for about an hour, at the suggestion of the damp and cursing hackmen they started homeward, and reached Cambridge at about - o'clock, having had a very pleasant time...
...flying fruit and vegetables; stretching forth his hand, he caught an apple thus thrown, and, taking his knife from his pocket, proceeded with the utmost coolness to pare and eat it. Certainly an admirable repartee! But we can learn this style of oratory in the city streets among the hackmen and newsboys much better than at our great University...