Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...take a last look at the contents, - simply a football, with painted frill fastened to the head of the coffin." The elegist then, in the most excessively mock sanctimonious manner, amid sighs and sobs and groans and lamentations, the noise of which might have been heard for a mile, read by torch-light the address, which we will reprint, with Mr. King's permission, from the Harvard Register...
...GOOD enough!" I inelegantly exclaimed as I read Jack's letter, in which he said he would come down the next day and stay a week with me; and I forthwith bounced out on the piazza and announced the news to my two sisters, three cousins, and the other young ladies who were reclining in the shade of the maples, alternately yawning and gaping to amuse themselves...
...oversight the following omissions occurred in our tables of last week. In the running high jump, after Mr. Morrison's 5 ft. 2 in. record, the line should read instead...
...Committee to the members of the Greek play, the president, Professor Goodwin, in calling upon Mr. Henry Norman, '81, to respond to the toast of "The Cast," expressed the hope that Creon would give them the latest news from Delphi. After replying to the toast, Mr. Norman read the following verses, remarking that Apollo asked the indulgence of the company, as it was so long since he had been called upon to furnish any hexameters...
...with no little surprise that we read in the Yale News of last Friday a letter purporting to have been written by a Harvard man to an acquaintance at Yale. The letter is published in full, names excepted, and is apparently a private one. The News must pardon us if we say that we do not consider it the legitimate province of a college paper to publish offers to bet any more than we would consider it proper for the News to sell pools officially, or to offer through the medium of its columns to give odds that their next...