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...rumor has come to our ears that several freshmen have been seen about the yard wearing silk hats and carrying canes as big as piano legs. We have detailed our fighting editor to prowl about the yard nights with a shot gun and a pair of bull pups. We feel it our duty to give adventurous freshman warning of the dire fate that awaits them if they perist in their rash ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/5/1887 | See Source »

Have I not, to my despisers, solved the great question? Go ye and laugh, go ye at night and prowl round the streets and grin like dogs. '90 is vindicated at last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1887 | See Source »

...forget the number of the room they are looking for, they generally get into the wrong entry, and wander aimlessly around until some one comes to their rescue. The difficult question to answer is, what material is stout enough to resist the attacks of the gentlemen who prowl around in search of trophies. Ordinary cards are entirely out of the question. We are of the opinion that black letters painted on a white background of tin, nailed quite high, would be conspicuous enough, and certainly out of the way of all but very determined trophy-hunters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

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