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...thousand six hundred dollars have been given by Byron Shear, Cornell, '74, to that college to purchase a launch for the use of the coach and crews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/19/1893 | See Source »

...average chemist. His hair, if it chance to be curly, is allowed to curl unchecked over his manly brow; if nature has made it straight, it wanders forlornly about in every direction until some compassionate barber, who is moderate in his charges, mows it down with unsparing shear. From these indications his general appearance may be imagined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCRUB. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

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