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...PHILOSOPHICAL Soph, sophistically philosophizing, has fallen into the sophistry, "Matter is destructible, for Livingtone was a-Nile-ated." O yes! - that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

...SYSTEMATIC Soph declared to his friends that he had fixed the date for his three annual bats. The next night a friend saw him describing a cycloid with the central point of the brick in his hat, and said: "Why, Smith, I thought your first date was three weeks later?" "Er - hic ! - feller mush get into training, yer know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

...good manners would permit, he confessed his fear of being "gobbled" by the "Fresh." His fair friends agreed to accompany him back to his room. Accordingly, with three "high-school gum-drops" as his escort, he sallied forth; and so did the "Fresh"; and the result was that the "Soph" was pumped. He is now trying to persuade the unprejudiced public that he was going home with the girls. - Chronicle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

Prof. "What were the three great festivals of the Jews?" Soph. The Passover, Pentecost, and Feast of Tabernacles." Prof. "What did the Passover celebrate?" soph. "Birth of Christ!" - Am. Student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...CERTAIN professor, whose chin was wont to be graced by a flowing beard, has lately returned shorn of every vestige of his hirsute appendage. A Soph., meeting the aforesaid Prof., after a prolonged stare, and with a knowing wink to his Senior companion, burst out with "By Jove, that's the hardest-looking Freshman I've seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

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