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...entered the sanctum simultaneously through different doors, and a bright blush suffused the tear-stained cheek of the maiden as she saw a frill of "Hamburg edging" peeping from under the modest coat-sleeve of the youth. He gave one look, and a long, convulsive shudder shook his manly frame as he perceived a shirt-button peeping from beneath the lace about her neck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CO-EDUCATIONAL INCIDENT. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

...nefarious calling of a book-agent. He sank lower and lower. He was at one time the most degraded free-lunch fiend in all Hoboken. Finally, even the last vestiges of respectability were thrown aside, and he went to Yale. What need to chronicle his future infamy? Let us shudder as we reveal the last act of his appalling moral cataclysm; for - sh - h! - he actually sank to the very depths of crime, and became the senior editor of the Wreckord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...slight shudder ran through him; he drew back a little from the doorway, and looked at me with an anxious and inquiring glance. I repeated my question. In reply the youth slowly pronounced the words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EVENING'S EXPERIENCE. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...trust the formation of caucuses and the packing of meetings will not be deemed necessary to secure a fair election. If such a class as '79, which has been characterized by the smoothness of intercourse between its different sections, cannot elect its officers in an open meeting, we shudder for the future of less peaceful classes. What '79 wants, what the College wants, is able and efficient officers, not figure-heads. Whether they belong to this society or to that is a minor consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

DESPITE the fact that the prevailing times are known as hard, and that the students have been solicited for contributions in aid of various objects to such an extent that they now instinctively shudder when they see approaching them one of those solicitors who with eager eye and hungry look stalk abroad seeking whom they may devour, still, in the face of these facts, this article is written for the purpose of setting forth another object which will demand pecuniary aid from the students, but which has one advantage over previous one namely, that the contributors have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO '77. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

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