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...Sigma and Zeta Alpha, but, sad to tell, they were disbanded and now Wellesley can boast of only four societies - the Beethoven, Microscopical and Missionary. Some weeks ago the latter gave a very pleasant exposition of Eastern customs in the gymnasium, the walls of which were hung with scarlet draperies and Oriental banners, while the stage presented several scenes from Indian life. Many of the society members wore brilliant Eastern costumes, and in these ways you can imagine our gymnasium was quite transformed...
...Cambridge Tribune accounts for the rumor of small-pox as follows: "The small-pox excitement originated on Wendell street, by the hanging out of a scarlet cloth to call in a fishman. This act was sufficient to start the rumor that a student had been taken from the house to a hospital where he was down with the small-pox, and that a young lady in another house on the same street was sick with the same disease. There has not been a case in the city so far as we can learn. Imagination sometimes is very vivid in anticipation...
...Scarlet fever prevails to an alarming extent at Buffalo, N. Y. In one school fifty pupils are down with...
...felt my hand seized as by an iron grasp a moment, that forced a cry of pain from me; and when I withdrew it there were finger-marks of livid scarlet across it, - that did not fade away...
...From your eyelids flaming scarlet...