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Dates: during 1873-1873
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DEAR SUE: The ordinary course of college life is tame enough, but occasionally something occurs to break the monotony. The other night loud screams were heard issuing from the west entry of Holworthy. Of course we turned out en masse to see what the matter was. It appeared, on investigation, that one of the girls in that entry had been frightened out of her wits at seeing the ghost of an old professor who used to occupy her room twenty or thirty years ago. According to her story, he scowled at her fearfully, and gruffly bade her vacate immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...deprived of all instruction by the College for three or six months for a mere technicality; because he failed to attend the requisite number of prayers, because he was absent a certain number of times from church without an excuse, because perhaps he was seen on Jarvis "Bloody Monday night." It is still harder to say that a man must be separated for a longer or shorter term from the University, because to what seemed to him a rude remark from an officer of government he made a rude reply. But when it happens that the charges against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE PENALTIES. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

Boston Theatre.Miss Neilson made her first appearance in Boston, on Monday night, in Romeo and Juliet. We have never before seen this part performed by an actress of great ability, and thus we lack anything with which to compare Miss Neilson's impersonation; but, judging it by itself, we think that it proves the lady to possess, not great genius, surely, but the highest talent. This, combined with her undeniable beauty of person, renders us loath to criticise. Her comedy in the first three acts was brilliant, but not wonderful; her tragedy in the last two acts simply magnificent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

...unafeared; and when night came...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DREAMS. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

...myself, let me say that, although duns are sometimes a source of amusement, I intend henceforth to know them only in their relations to my friends, and that I shall only sport my oak on the night before my annual examination in Math...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNS. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

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