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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...distinguish between Caporal and Vanity Fair cigarettes by smelling the smoke; I call all the College officials by their first names; I am a good judge of a meerschaum pipe; have a large bill at Pike's; know all the actresses in Boston by sight, and am rumored to be personally acquainted with a leading star; I can distinguish between claret, burgundy, cider, and champagne; I can criticise a woman's dress, and can retail all the latest Boston scandal, and am considered to be one of the best card-players in the College. There, sir, read that list through...
...been, or as I imagine her to be. But what school shall I take as a model? I rather like the French, if they would use a little more drapery. The Dutch have more drapery than the French, though they are deficient in other respects. I cannot bear the sight of those Dutch girls with hats something less than the circumference of the earth, and with market baskets in their hands. No, Rembrandt, we cannot follow you; you loved nature, but it was a vulgar nature. The English are bad also, especially Turner; he is too landscapy...
FRESHMAN Greek. An hour examination will be held in reading Greek at sight on Saturday, November 13, from 11 to 12 A.M. There will be no recitation in Greek on Saturday, November 13. Mr. Briggs's divisions will be examined, 2 and 3 in Mass. 1; 1 and 4 in Mass. 3. Dr. Phillips's division (minimum), in Mass. 1. Dr. Wheeler's division 6, in U. E. R. Mr. Dyer's division 5, in Sever...
...second lecture on Physiology and Hygiene, Professor James finished the subject of Touch, and began that of Sight, which will be continued next Wednesday...
After long and patient waiting, the soul-stirring strains of a Bach fugue, interspersed with variations from Haydn's Third Symphony, were heard, and presently the only, the inimitable brass band hove in sight, the bras being loaned, for this occasion only, by the Echo Board...