Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss?
FROM the tone of the College Courier, published at Monmouth College, III., we should judge that institution to be a sort of overgrown Sunday school. A poem entitled "The Drunkard's Soliloquy," which would serve as ballast for half a dozen numbers of an ordinary college paper, is followed by...
"While in the subject of electricity, the sphere of communication was wittily termed sparking distance by a promising Junior." - College Courier.
WE learn from the Record that a member of '75, at Harvard, has favored that journal with a communication containing information with reference to the ball and boating interests, and the relation of '75 to each of the college papers. This aspirant for the favors of the Record is treated...
THE tone of Western college journalism is, in most cases, far different from what we could desire. Even in those colleges where the periodicals are most mature, now and then there crops out some illustration of the puerilities with which the students are amused. Not only in their publications are...