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Many interesting characters, among them picturesque guides, are to be met with in the Tyrol. The inn-keepers, the peasants, stray students climbing mountains and sending their songs out across the valleys, all these are quaint and interesting to the stranger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOUNTAIN CLIMBING IN TYROL | 3/1/1911 | See Source »

...tingling with the strong, salt flavor of sea-girt downs and long, pebbly beaches; a tantalizing glimpse of gray ocean and pine-clad islands. The story, as a mere story, amounts to little, but why should it? The book does not purport to be more than a few stray chapters from the lives of a few people, isolated almost absolutely as are the inhabitants of Eastern Maine. Their interests are circumscribed by the hills on one side and the ocean on the other. Yet it seems but natural that the stranger--a smuggler he happened to be--who comes...

Author: By W. R. Castle ., | Title: Review of "Admiral's Light" | 4/7/1908 | See Source »

...Freshman and class crews worked indoors and will probably continue to do so until the latter part of the week. Both the "John Harvard" and the "Veritas" are now ready for use, but they will not be launched until all stray cakes of ice have left the river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CREW ON RIVER | 3/22/1904 | See Source »

...even one thrust at the swaggering Sophomore with his new pipe. The centre page well illustrates a real phase of Freshman life and some of the other sketches are creditable. Perhaps the most successful attempt is a take-off on the poetry of Kipling and his admirers. Several stray hits are scattered throughout the number and a wandering member of the University is welcomed back and his exploits rehearsed in a manner truly dazzling and wonderful, but scarcely appreciable by the college at large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lampoon. | 10/19/1897 | See Source »

WIRT ROBINSON, 1st Lt., 4th U. S. Artillery.ENGLISH 7.- Reading of Philips. Pastorals I, III, IV. The Stray Nymph. The Happy Swain. Songs: "From White's and Will's" "Why we love, and why we hate." To Miss Margaret Pulteney. To Miss Charlotte Pulteney. To Miss Georgiana, Youngest Daughter to Lord Carteret...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Official Notice. | 11/5/1896 | See Source »

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