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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...beautiful wings, is, as a figure, one of Durer's many representations of immortal ugliness, if such an expression is allowable. Any one who is displeased by it, however, has but to look for consolation into the valley over which Fortune is floating. This is indeed fairy-land. The town reminds you of Durer's times, but the landscape awakens pleasure within you which you yourself are conscious that you have often been on the point of feeling at the sight of such smiling landscapes in reality. But at the same time you are fully aware that your pleasure...

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

...third place, he argues that a college reward is of limited value, because the reputation accruing from it is of an almost purely local character, and that a contest open to all the colleges in the land would call forth more contestants and rouse more ambition on account of the widespread reputation which would crown successful competitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERCOLLEGIATE CONTESTS. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...pistol-boom from quarter-deck, we weigh anchor (4000 lbs., more or less). We lend a hand, which is blistered. Observe mysterious stranger sorting papers in the shadow of a warehouse. Freshman fires, does not drop his man, - no cap, and proper position of cartridge reversed. Our native land, good night! (Byron...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODS BODIKINS! | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...year, when the winds were keen, and frost had chained our land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INDIAN SUMMER'S DREAM. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

Pride of the Northern land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STORMING OF MISSION RIDGE. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

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