Word: tales
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year, some recognition of this fact might be found. The college man or the recent college graduate as either hero, villain or important character in novels, seems to be growing decidedly popular. Not only as heretofore is it common to find some of the more important characters in a tale incidentally spoken of as college graduates, but more stress is often laid upon this fact than has been usual heretofore, and college students themselves more often come to occupy important positions in the plots of most novelists. All this is indicative, we think, of the increasing influence and importance that...
This report did but little to clear up the mystery, and matters were still in this distressing condition when, breathless and dishevelled, the orator burst into the room. The tale of violence was soon told. Overwhelmed by numbers, the freshmen had been captured by sophomores and conveyed to a solitary house on the verge of the town, where their captors had intended to confine them until day. The orator alone escaped, whether by superior muscle or by his impassioned appeals to the sophomores for liberty, is not known...
...Yale News announces the following new books, which it says are not issued in the "Seaside Library." "Two Years Behind the Mast, or Life in a Barn." By Oscar Simpson. "Gully's Revenge, or a Tale of the Crossing." Author unknown. "The Drugged Doughnut, or Three Buckets of Blood." By Gasp Hard. "The Mad Butcher, or The Fate of a Yale Tutor." By the author of "Beautiful Snow." "The Dumb Singer or The Warped Tooth Brush." By Hic. Cough...
English Readings. - Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale." Prof. Child, Sever...
English Readings. Chaucer's Clerke's Tale. Professor Child. Sever...