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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...want. But bless the boy, say I, it is n't necessary to give him everything; he will give me his company for nothing, and take us dyspeptic students away from our books with his prattle. And bless the old pedler who will sell me his oranges and throw in an hour's talk about his life, giving me something to think of outside my own, and something to laugh at besides college jokes. Bless the dog-man who will tell me about the latest addition to "Missy's" family. Bless the delicate young creature who will kiss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NICHOLAS. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...that has been said on the subject, we may reasonably expect. There are other points, however, that may be overlooked by those who have not profited by bitter experience. The windows, for instance, in the University recitation-rooms are, in nine cases out of ten, so arranged as to throw the sunlight right into the faces of the class, and to envelop the instructor in a deep shadow, whence, like the Homeric gods, he can see without being seen. Unpleasant as it is to be unable to distinguish the instructor's expression or to see what he is looking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUGGESTIONS FOR SEVER HALL. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...they come here, are really fine fellows. As a rule, it is the best parents who send their sons to college, and it is their best sons that they send. Such sons will be more likely to do good than harm. I don't think that Cambridge ought to throw open her houses and say, 'Come in, all you students, and be one of the family'; but I do think she might treat these fellows as kindly as, for instance, you'd like to have your family treated if you should move into a strange place. Now when that polite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT TWO FATHERS THOUGHT. | 1/11/1878 | See Source »

...derivative has preserved in Cambridge its primitive meaning, I should like to know it, but my main purpose in writing is to find out whether to summon or to summons is sanctioned by the best usage. If the Crimson, or any of its contributors, can throw any light on this subject they will oblige...

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

MOVED by the call of an article in the last Crimson for visitors at the boat-house, I resolved for once to throw off my Harvard indifference, and go to see how some of the "disreputable lunatics" passed an hour on the river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VISIT TO THE BOAT-HOUSE. | 10/26/1877 | See Source »

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