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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...college 't is thought a most exquisite pleasure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVICE FROM A CONTENTED MAN. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...POET.MY love, when I thought of you far away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ABSENCE. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

Some tender-hearted people may object to this plan that it is treacherous; that it takes the man at a disadvantage; that it is hardly honorable. I thought so myself at first, but I convinced myself of the contrary by three cogent arguments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTRACISM AND OTHER THINGS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

...picked up my Demonology. "Poor ghost!" I thought, "though perhaps rightly punished, his case is a hard one. Were his story more widely known, I am sure that there is not a man in college who would not, to relieve this spirit's pain, give up some of his own pleasures, even that of going to prayers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ALAS! POOR GHOST." | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...Herbert Spencer is far more essential to a person who "pretends to a knowledge of Philosophy" than an acquaintance with the works of Aristotle and of Plato. I should have fancied that this was still an open question; but as I am no great philosopher, and as advanced thought is at this moment extremely fashionable, I will not venture to differ from your advanced contemporary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

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