Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very much pleased with the sketches of life and character in the Record, and gladly take the opportunity of enlightening our readers as to the manners and customs of the natives at Yale: "A friend of ours always begins his afternoon parade by standing on the steps of the New Haven House, with an old toothpick in his mouth that he has kept for the purpose. After he has made a good impression he starts down street, stopping long enough to get a cigar charged; he circulates around until the free soup is ready at Eli's, and then slips...
...thoughts that are "sitting on the eyelids" of a student, "bending o'er the classic page"; and these same thoughts later "rustle in his hair." In descriptive language the paper is very rich; as a specimen, we have "uproarous silence." It is hardly fair to be severe on a new issue, but it is better for a paper to be dull, and free from shameful typographical errors, than passable in reading matter, and full of such unpardonable mistakes as "wether," "conicious," and "ficle...
...young man of a prudent turn of mind, who has just entered Harvard College, applied for insurance on his property in a prominent office in New York. A portion of the policy returned read as follows: "Insurance is effected on his education, raw, wrought, and in process, and materials for completing the same, including library of printed books, bookcases, musical instruments, eye-glasses and canes, statuary and works of art, wearing apparel, beds and bedding, contained in No. -, Thayer Hall, College Yard, Cambridge. Permission to work-extra hours, not later than 10 P. M., to even up work...
...Providence. We have for a long time been defrauded of our money by the exorbitant prices which have been set by those who supply us with the necessaries of life. Now at last we have them on the hip; and, although the number of those who gain by this new method of retribution is quite small, nevertheless, as they are a credit to the College by reason of their shrewdness, we who have suffered do not grudge them the rewards of their labors...
...store; but there are no pictures in America, you know. What is this? - sunshine, green trees, running brooks, cattle, farmhouses! Why, I thought I was in Boston! So you were, my dear fellow; but now you are in the middle of all the gorgeous warmth and beauty of a New England summer. Put away that dripping umbrella of yours, and let us wander down this lane. See that flock of sheep lying in the meadow yonder, close to that broken-down old wall, and the farm-house just beyond. It must be nearly six o'clock. These long summer days...