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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said Jack; "they 'II think you 've gone out to take something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LED ASTRAY. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

...think the cause of such a man's unpopularity is his disregard of the fact that there is a mean between servility and self-assertion. It is a tendency common in young men to take extremes. They seem to feel, in spite of the auream mediocritatem of Horace (who, by the by, knew more about the world than they do), that their sense of right will not admit of their pursuing any course that lies between obsequiousness and arrogance. I recognize as plainly as any one can the need of a man's sticking to the right if he would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCEIT vs. CUSTOM. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

THIS year I board at Memorial Hall, and I have a seat at a table on the dais at the end of the Hall. I can't say that I like it quite as well as I did Brown's, but, on the whole, I think it good enough for a law-student like myself. You see I did n't get my degree last year, and so now I am determined to rough it. To come to the point, I had always regarded the men who boarded here somewhat in the light of barbarians, but I was hardly prepared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

...last February. We would mildly suggest to the Faculty, proctors, janitor, or to whomsoever the duty belonged of putting the room in order for the examination, that on their or his head lies the responsibility of more colds in the head, sore-throats, and catarrh than is pleasant to think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

...think it hardly necessary to mention that this splendid mathematical metaphor is from our friend the Boston Beacon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

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