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...certain Northern colleges is denied the plodding student. One would say that he ought to get through with an immense deal of work, and the local legend is certainly to that effect. The seriousminded alumnus of the University of Virginia assumes a fine disdain for the lotus-eating students of Harvard, Yale and Columbia. If one may take the examinations propounded here as a criterion, every Northern collegian will doubtless be willing to admit that it cannot "seem always afternoon" to the University of Virginia student. These examinations, incredibly enough, occupy from six to fifteen hours and are said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A QUAINT OLD COLLEGE. | 1/3/1884 | See Source »

...Lotus Glee Club, composed of graduates of Harvard, rendered several selections at the annual meeting of the Boston Bar Association. Among the songs was a chant of chap. 2, sec. 7, of the constitution of Massachusetts, defining the powers of the governor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/1/1883 | See Source »

...Lotus Quartette, composed of Harvard graduates, sang at the second concert of the Cambridge Orchestral Society, which was given last night in Union Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 12/21/1882 | See Source »

...Henry Parkes of New South Wales was the guest of the Lotus Club in New York Saturday night. He was welcomed by Whitelaw Reid, president of the club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/20/1882 | See Source »

...public was informed by yesterday's Advertiser that among the contributors to Moses King's "Poets' Tributes to Garfield," is "Mr. Lotus Dyer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/15/1882 | See Source »

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