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...Jove we'll show the Elis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Song for Today's Game. | 11/19/1892 | See Source »

...Great Jove! And can these things be? The yard a lake of raging water, whose billows roll over the unprotected sidewalks, and never a glimmer of light at night to act as light-house on the vasty deep! This particular editor of the CRIMSON fell in three feet of water, and wandered off the main channel of the sidewalk into deeper gulfs twice last evening in voyaging from Holworthy to Weld. There was water everywhere, and nothing to guide him in it. The president is away, we know, but we must appeal to the pity and humanity of the residuary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/19/1887 | See Source »

...right stood a young man of the unquestionable dude stamp, whose sole energy seemed to be concentrated in masticating the head of his cane, or regarding with languid anxiety the lily in his button-hole, while he occasionally gave vent to ejaculations of "by Jove," "deuced clever that." Our companion informed us that he was a Beck Hall man, and, if he lived, would probably graduate in the class of nineteen hundred and eighty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Visit to Harvard. | 6/17/1885 | See Source »

...majestic figure of Homer is treated as the Greeks treated the figure of Jove. The grand head has heavy clustering hair and beard, the mighty chest is bare to the waist. The figure is seen in full face, the attitude is self-reliant, commanding, king-like. A staff is grasped in one hand, the other holds the drapery which comes from the shoulders and covers the lower portion of the body and the lower limbs. The modeling of the chest and limb is masterful, the pose of the head majestic. The pale dull red, green and yellow of the background...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW HARVARD WINDOW. | 10/19/1883 | See Source »

First Swell: By Jove, Fred, that is quite the highest collar I've struck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOSE ENGLISH COLLARS. | 12/20/1882 | See Source »

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