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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unfortunate men who sit near those I have described. Something in this fashion: - "Let me give you an example of metornymy, he is certain to get on the crew. Care should be taken in the use of personification, and - in stringing your banjo. I think you will easily see that the writers purpose has been defeated - in three rounds. Personification often lends picturesqueness and - she's a daisy." Is scacely need to point out which are the instructor's words and which those of our talkative friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 1/7/1887 | See Source »

...been adorned with window shades, an extravagance which some conservatives may be ready to condemn, but which no former sufferer from Phoebus' rays will not hail with delight. Since the University has been ready to do so much for our comfort, the sanguine among us may hope to see plank-walks throughout the yard before the twentieth century dawns on the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/4/1887 | See Source »

...know students personally. I wish that I could say as much for the rather diffident youths, who, doubtless unmeaningly, have more than once failed to respond to friendly advances. What I have said, however, should be enough to show one of the reasons why I hope in time to see at Harvard a University Club that shall include both students and officers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Life at Harvard. | 1/4/1887 | See Source »

...hail the news that at last, after so much weary waiting, the students of Harvard University are to be removed ex tenebris and introduced into the light of knowledge with keen delight. In fancy we see the pointed windows of Gore Hall pouring forth a flood of cheerful light over the snowbound wastes leading to Harvard street on one hand and to Sever Hall on the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/22/1886 | See Source »

...usually held in a presidential year, and the large number remaining to the close - an unusually late hour for the Union - shows how keen an interest was maintained to the close. The Union under good auspices, is a very useful organization, and we are glad to see live questions under discussion and interest so aroused in debates as at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/21/1886 | See Source »

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