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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...remedy, we are happy to say, is at hand. "The Harvard Clothing Store" will relieve future professors from all confusion. It is intended that every student shall have the privilege of clothing himself there, but no student is to be compelled to do so; only, any one who does not wear the college costume will not be regarded as a student. The regulation coat consists of red serge, cut in long-tailed frock pattern, and having on the back, in large gold lines, the inevitable shield of the University, with "In Vino Veritas" plainly stamped thereupon. The waistcoat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW SCHEME. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...Excuse me, miss," interposed the gentleman from Harvard, "but you have your hand in my pocket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ENCOUNTER WITH A PICKPOCKET. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

Investigation showed that, owing to the crowded car and her proximity to the tall student, she had in fact put her hand into the wrong pocket. The student was not arrested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ENCOUNTER WITH A PICKPOCKET. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...first section will hand in their forensic November 5; the second, November 12; the third, November 19; the fourth, November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...next man was pitched out, and the third scraped the airy vault of heaven with what seemed to every one a home run; but little they recked of the noble L. F., the heroic Blister; this gallant man, with measured step and song, froze to the sphere with one hand while running backward, and the Hod-lifters retired with no runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MATCH OF THE SEASON. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

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