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...England. She is perhaps the first learned Brahmin who has ever crossed the ocean. She is a descendant of the ancient Brahmin family, Sandilya. Her correct pronunciation of the Sanscrit, and the astonishing ease, with which she composes and recites Sanscrit verses in the most difficult metre, is a marvel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/8/1884 | See Source »

...lately met a successfull Girl Graduate, and melancholy indeed was the impression she made upon me. She had passed the examinations with the highest honors, and she was pointed out to me as a perfect marvel of knowledge, a walking encyclopeadia of buried languages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIRL GRADUATES. | 12/18/1883 | See Source »

...issued. Some of the typographical errors were very amusing, especially those in the Athletic Records, where that most stupid of mortals, a printer's devil, has made a Hercules, Jr., throw a hammer "36 sec. ; " a bicycle ride two miles in " 13 ft., " and the running broad jump, a marvel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLUMBIA. | 4/13/1882 | See Source »

That thou mayst marvel how the would-be wise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE COMEDY. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

Took a well-colored pipe and "Ik Marvel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MARVELLOUS VISION. | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

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