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...Sub-Freshman. - Why, "the bony legs of Caesar," I believe, sir. (Small earthquake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

...SUB-FRESHMAN, on his way to College, met a Junior with a Large and Handsome Dog. The Lad spoke to the Animal, and said, "Come with me, and I will buy me a new Coat and we will be happy together. "Not so," replied the Sagacious Brute. "I am an upper-class Animal, and if I accompanied You, my air would be so Awkward from shame at the company I was in, that you would be at once Recognized for the Ass that you are. Therefore, I pray you, put away Ambition." Thus saying, he left the Aspiring Innocent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FABLE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...Canst thou love a lone Sub-Freshman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DIALOGUE UPON COLLEGE HAPPINESS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...Lone Sub-Freshman, Diggy dear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DIALOGUE UPON COLLEGE HAPPINESS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

Before he had reached Athens, the sub-Freshman was met by students who urged or compelled him to join the classes of that professor whose partisans they were, - a proceeding which reminds one of the way which the Yale students take to recruit their Freshman societies. The factions often came to blows over the merits of rival instructors, but the most serious rows were between town and gown, - for the students of "the fair metropolis of the world of mind" then strove with as much eagerness as the students of the metropolis of America now strive to make their occupation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT LIFE IN ATHENS. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

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