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...particular, we freshmen still suffer very much from the foul odors engendered in experiments. - (I looked up the word in the dictionary, it's all right). Now, mother says I am looking quite badly, and father says I smell like a barkeeper, and my cousin Mary says I am horrid, so that she has to use her smelling-bottle. And . . ." [Here we cut out some affecting lamentations.] "Help us ere we dye. Very sincerely yours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REJECTED COMMUNICATIONS. | 3/6/1882 | See Source »

...heard papa read that Oscar Wilde had arrived. Now whatever do they make all this fuss of him for? I don't care one speck about seeing him, but I know some of the girls are just crazy to. I've seen his picture, and think he's horrid ugly. He looks like a Yale senior does when he asks you to waltz - sort of frightened and remorseful. But I'm just going to tell you of something that happened at the theatre the other evening. I went with my Cousin Harry (he's my second cousin), and a great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER FROM A YOUNG LADY. | 1/23/1882 | See Source »

...horrid awful to think that some women want to vote; I know that I'd vote for the best-looking man, and so would all the girls; but I don't see that there's any fun in voting. I only voted once in my life, and that was at our church fair, when I voted for the handsomest girl there. It isn't so that I voted for myself, and that hateful Hurty Randall only said that because I beat her by one vote. Don't you think that gentlemen ought to wear evening dress at the theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER FROM A YOUNG LADY. | 1/23/1882 | See Source »

Here comes a horrid naughty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

Science, with all its horrid accessories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONNET. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

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