Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nights ago was the removal of the clapper of the college bell, a feat that is performed here annually. The students paid dearly for this piece of folly, for a proctor, coming upon them quietly, removed the scaling ladder, and kept them up in the cold until he thought they had a sufficient time for repentance, and then let them down, taking their names as they descended...
...report is going the rounds of the press that Chin Tah Fay, a Chinese student, was turned out of the house in which he boarded because his boarding mistress thought he had a "bad eye." This suspicion proved to have been well founded, for news comes from China that, on his return home, he wantonly murdered his father, and was beheaded...
Lord Vernon will soon publish the hitherto inedited "Comment on the Divine Comedy" by Benvenuto da Imola. It was the intention of the Dante Society of Cambridge to do this, but it was thought better to allow Lord Vernon to carry out the design of his father who had prepared the manuscript before his death...
...this same lady, whom they mistook for a student, and conducted themselves accordingly; but they soon found out their mistake, and left somewhat chagrined. This was not the first instance of the kind. Quite an amusing accident befel one of the girls last fall. It was a freshman, who thought she would stay away from chapel one evening. By way of amusement she strolled through the corridor, and, seeing a bright light in a room, concluded to make a call. Two ladies were sitting by the table reading when our friend entered and exclaimed, "Hallo! didn...
...give the following facts obtained on the authority of the auditor, the steward and from other reliable sources: At the beginning of the college year a surplus fund of $1800 remained in the hands of the association. Shortly afterward several repairs were made at the hall, which the bursar thought should be charged to the members of the association. The bills for these repairs were sent to the auditor, who approved them, and charged them to this surplus fund of $1800, instead of to the amount received for board during the last term. If these repairs had been paid...