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Dates: during 1873-1873
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We found it jolly! Every day

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE FOR THE TIMES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

YALE has had its Thanksgiving Jubilee, and the Courant and Record gladly fill their columns with the nonsense characteristic of the occasion. If an address on the "Ramifications of the Forensic Hyperbla," relying for its wit on poor spelling and lack of punctuation, be a sample of the performances, we...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

What is here known as a "squirt" is called at other places a "rowl" or "rush." The analogy between the sudden ejection of water from a pipe and the quick and forcible expulsion of words from the mouth probably gave rise to this word, which so aptly expresses what it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE NOMENCLATURE. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

There are various avenues to college popularity: some wish to be popular with a few, and therefore seek by means of their money to make friends with the conspicuous members of prominent societies; some try for it by prowess in boating or at ball, and some by generous contributions to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POPULARITY AND POLICY. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

However pleasing it may be to some of us to carry the reputation of being jolly dogs, etc., yet the above picture symbolizes the characteristics of a very small set of each class, - a set which grows smaller as the class grows older. The majority of students do not deserve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE REPUTATION. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

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