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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pale moon arose, - when naught was seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUR EXAMINATIONS. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

DURING the last few days many Freshmen have been seen wending their way in the direction of Fresh Pond, with skates in their hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...years ago I gave up this custom in disgust at the adherence of Harvard to the worst faults in rowing. And this is a mild term to use, for I can truly say that I have never seen an individual member of a Harvard crew show that the first principles of a correct stroke were known to him. Finally I expressed the hope that Harvard would be badly beaten in the annual race for a series of years, believing that nothing short of this. would bring her to her senses. Now it appears that she is persuaded that something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

DEAR JACK, - I happened to meet the other day a fellow by the name of Robinson, who has lately been in Cambridge, and who told me that he had seen you there. He is related, I believe, to one of your classmates. My fraternal interest got the better of my manners, and I put him in a rather awkward position by asking him what he thought of you. He replied, with apparent sincerity, that you seemed to be a very good fellow, and that you were devilish amusing and impudent Now Robinson himself is a very good sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...last a little girl of the family came in complaining that she wanted to open a bottle of colored ink for her drawing, and no corkscrew could be found to fit. I offered to try to open it with a common screw and a string, as I had seen a friend do here at college. I tried and succeeded. "Thank you," cried the little girl. "O, how nice!" said her older sisters. The cousin smiled contemptuously, and observed, "Quite an undergraduate accomplishment, - opening bottles!" The little girl did not understand his drift; the older sisters did, and looked compassionately towards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RESULT OF REFORM. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

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