Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"A Mission Legend" is the best story in this number. As the writer states, it is written entirely without regard to style or effect, and this same unpretentiousness lends a great charm to it. The tale is that of the love of an Indian princess for a Mission Father with...
"Right or Wrong" is an episode from the Civil War; although the idea is not new the story is related so charmingly that the reader cannot help enjoying it. "The Adventures of an Evening" is a curious bit of fancy; although well told, somehow or other is unsatisfactory, perhaps because...
"The story of the Absent-minded Man and the Parasol" is interesting and amusing. The ending is unexpected, and in a happy vein.
The corteous treatment received from the University of Pennsylvania by our cricket eleven on the occasion of their visit to Philadelphia last Saturday, cannot fail to be gratifying to every Harvard undergraduate, and forges another link in the chain of goodwill which connects the two Universities. It is unfortunate that...
Close following the news of Harvard's defeat in lacrosse, cricket and baseball, comes the news even more unexpected, of her failure to win the Mott Haven cup. The result of the games is of course unfortunate and calls for the sincere regret of every Harvard man; and yet it...