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...spring the passive poco tempts you with a dollar note...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE SPRING. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

LAST year we were all pleased to see that the College authorities had taken measures to exclude book agents, pedlers, etc., from the College buildings. Even University forbade the speculating "Poco" from plying his trade at the office. Within the last month, however, the "Pocos" have taken courage, and again begun their annoying visits to College rooms in defiance of the threat of the authorities to hand all such offenders over to the police. We trust that when the attention of the College authorities has been once called to the fact that their rules are being violated, all cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...occasional poco can still be seen in spite of the signs in the entries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...Goody; I set the machine going, totally forgetting that I had left it open during my absence, and had left my chum in the room. Imagine my horror, when the first thing it reeled off was, "If you don't get out of this room, you d -- poco - " I hastily awoke from my reverie, and declared that autophones were out of the question. It would n't do to subject one's conversation to so accurate a recorder...

Author: By W. G. T., | Title: AUTOPHONES. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...Quick!" I yelled; "the ammonia." She handed it, and I poured the whole into the remnants of my pocket. There was an explosion, a woman's scream, a blinding smoke. When this smoke cleared away I was alone, and wearing the most demoralized suit of clothes that ever a poco dreamed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY I DON'T ELECT CHEMISTRY. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

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