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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inhales air, but only under protest, as his taste is for something less invigorating. Not having the means of diluting the stuff, however, he is obliged to use it full strength, at the risk of actually becoming robust. In dining, when excessively hungry, he has been known to look at a lily in a glass of water for fully five minutes, and then waddle away and loosen his waistcoat. But such gluttony is very rare with the great aesthete, and ordinarily a hasty glance at a photograph of a sandwich is all he feels warranted in taking. By the exercise...
...Davis invites members of Nat. Hist. 4 to look over some views and maps of volcanoes, in University 4, at 3.30 this afternoon...
...four divisions, being owned by four different societies; but now the societies have voted that the libraries belonging to them be thrown together and reclassified, so as to form one complete whole, instead of being so widely scattered that, to find one book, sometimes you would be obliged to look in four different places for it and then, perhaps, not find...
...more than of "grand poetic promise." One who considers the vast amount of mediocre and passable poetry daily ground out by the periodical press, will be shy of putting any great hopes upon such insincere matter as the most of Mr. Wilde's verses. Why, if we will but look into our own hearts, if we will but consider the mass of often excellent and promising poetry annually produced from our own midst, and then consider how little of this will ever grow and blossom into any worthy fruition, we will necessarily be cautious hereafter in staking any great hopes...
...part of the community, and secondly, that it is only through their own initiative that relief and reform can be secured. Cooperative schemes anywhere are doubtful undertakings, doubly so in college matters; and therefore, although the need of action on our part is universally admitted, it behooves us to look carefully in the first place to our beginnings; then not to attempt too much at once; and above all, to enlist the interest and active cooperation of the greatest number possible before taking any decisive step. Better, as the Crimson hints, bend every effort to securing one article, such...