Word: magic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...novels, and long haired grinds. We snub the library, but maintain silence when we are informed that "you can get in, even after four o'clock." Another corridor, a door; we enter, and the first object that meets our eye is a black, battered beaten, Brimless beaver with the magic legend upon it, H. '85, Below the hat is suspended a bottle, a cologne bottle we conjecture. About the broken handles of the wreck of what once might have been a campaign torch are tied three filthy rags. What visions these symbols conjured up! "Is he, is he dead...
...regard Napoleon and his empire. The strength to the old Napoleon's legend is rapidly declining, although twenty or thirty years ago it was still very powerful. So powerful in fact, that when in 1848 Prince Louis Napoleon was nominated for the Presidency of the Republic, the mere magic of his name was sufficient to give him an overwhelming majority. The results of the Franco-German war, however, have greatly dimmed the lustre of the French arms under Napoleon, and many of the present French Republicans are exceedingly bitter towards the First Consul, charging that he took France with...
...must take what his elders leave him, or go without. Let us hope, therefore, that some other millionaire graduate will remedy this sad state of affairs by building a new and roomy dormitory, which shall perpetuate his name, and save the race of Freshmen from total banishment from the magic circle...
...Huntington gave a continuation of his lectures with magic lantern views of different place in Europe. His subject was Switzerland. The hall was entirely filled with people who thoroughly enjoyed the lecture. In the course of the lecture, Mr. Huntington described an ascent which he made of Monte Rosa, a mountain nearly as high as Mont Blane. The mountain is a very difficult one to ascend, so difficult that it is impossible to carry a camera along, so that no views of the ascent itself could be given. Views, however, illustrating the various difficulties in the ascent of a snow...
...MONDAY.Photographic Illustrations with the Magic Lantern. Normandy. Mr. O. W. Huntington. Boylston Hall...