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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SCRIPTURAL Senior comes down repeating half mournfully, half reproachfully: 'O Sage. O Sage, thou that crusheth the Junior and aweth the Fresh, how oft would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.' A conscience some what seared suggests, 'Was, nimmer?' And the laboring spirit answers, 'Not since the matron came.' - Cornell...

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

...make a game fight with a hen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAVE CANEM. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

...continued to disgust a crowd of men because he thought it funny, he would be in a very different position. Nor is a young man's failure to make a good speech at a public dinner at all inexcusable, but "funny" allusions to the Faculty as an old hen reflect no credit upon the society which permits them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENTILSHOMMES, BOURGEOIS, ARTISTES. | 2/26/1875 | See Source »

...hen, just for that, laid two eggs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

...thus did the Hen re-ward Beecher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

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