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Sixteen silk hats were observed on the sidewalk in front of Sawin's express office yesterday afternoon; also about seventy-five trunks.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/5/1886 | See Source »

When the sun rose Wednesday morning, Dec. 22, it did not find the college yard wholly deserted nor the dormitories wholly vacant. A few men always have to remain in Cambridge during the vacations, either because the distance to be travelled homeward is too long, or because those who have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Christmas Recess. | 1/4/1886 | See Source »

There stands beneath my window an antiquated piece of furniture with which I have had the most familiar acquaintance from my very earliest recollection. It is a sofa, in the correct acceptance of the term. It is not a "lounge." Its framework is of some dark wood, well begrimed with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: My Sofa. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

We went through the physical laboratories, the natural history museum, and the trunk-rooms. Hundreds and hundreds of trunks, side beside, occupy two large attic rooms. Trunks of all sizes and all varieties were there; and here came the only sad thought of the day. We almost wept in pity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Reception at Wellesley. | 3/2/1885 | See Source »

The first peculiarity of Wellesley that strikes a Harvard student is the simple fact that all the innocent "freshmen," high and mighty "Sophs," etc., are girls. It is a girl who says in your hearing "she got plucked." They are, girls who are playing tennis over there. It is a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley College, | 9/27/1884 | See Source »

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