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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...nomen Wilhelmina, appropriately shortened to "Will") had no fewer adventures in her after life than in her college course; for she must have contracted a morbid desire for excitement during those four years. She saves a classmate (male, of course) from drowning, rides a wild horse, is almost killed, like Horace, by the falling branch of a tree, and generally had her nerves strung to so high a pitch of excitement that if a reaction took place after graduation, the consequences must have been dreadful indeed. Likewise did she have her share of other wooing than that of the Muses...
...volume the editors of the Crimson beg to announce to their readers the introduction of a column devoted exclusively to amateur sports. The need of some short abstract of sporting news has long been felt by many men who have not the time to wade weekly through several papers like the Spirit of the Times, who yet desire to keep up with the athletic world at home and abroad. We hope our column may supply this want, and that its excellence may prove our excuse for inserting it. The information contained in it will be taken mainly from Bell...
...have rather a blunt sting; it is filled with those primitive and exceedingly personal "grinds," which are found only in very youthful and very Western papers, and in a contemporary from Connecticut, which we need not mention more explicitly. We learn from the OEstrus that California colleges are like our own, in some respects at least. There, as here, the editors have to write the papers; there, as here, athletics are neglected, and so on through the list of grievances. For purity of style and refinement of taste, we commend this item...
...change. Every one who studies there must notice how much easier it is to concentrate his attention upon his books now than it was when, every time he raised his eyes, he caught sight of some fair maiden shut up in a dim recess behind an impassable bar, just like the heroine of a fairy-tale. All this is changed; but still the obstacle to study is not wholly removed. The most inveterate grind can scarcely maintain his composure, and calmly shuffle those puzzling cards in the catalogue, if, on raising his eyes, he sees beside him a sylph-like...
...Smith," said I, "is n't that just a little too strong, - `gentle step, sylph-like form'? Why, I believe that you must have some other motive than marks for your everlasting grinding at the Library...