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Dates: during 1870-1879
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In the old "Stuffed Club" system, and in a less degree, in the method of nomination pursued last year, many men found their representatives chosen for them without regard to their consent. By a curious contradiction in terms, however, the officers elected were called Class-Day officers, and assumed to...
On all parts of the hill are scattered in little groups gentlemen and ladies, boys and girls, - of all ages, from fifteen to thirty, - married and single, engaged, and still to have that pleasure. Instead of sleds they are dragging up the hill "taboggins," which is the Indian sled, and...
As to the Dining-Hall, the average price was $452 a week, of which twenty-two cents per week represented rent in the shape of interest and an annual payment of $1,000 on the debt to the Corporation. This debt was, on September 1, 1875, $47,219.75, which has...
Then, by good luck, in came an old lady of seventy, going to spend a week with her niece. She had three trunks, two carpet-bags, a band-box, an umbrella, a bundle of clothes, a parasol, a bundle of tracts, a jar of pickles, some peppermints, a few odd...
The last I saw of the wreck the calf had devoured most of the old lady's pickles and peppermints, and had begun on her bonnet; and the conductor, Bill, and the fireman were asking how it happened, and laying the blame on each other. I returned North by another...