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...College papers please copy, with the addition, "This low, dastardly, ill-bred attack is only a mark of the idiotic brain which invented it. Such vile, underhanded reptilian onslaughts can only have proceeded from a narrow, bigoted, Pharisaical fool." That, we think, is the usual style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIBBONS. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

...Vile just of gold throughout the world is king...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WAY OF THE WORLD. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...wronged; - no vile cosmetics taint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUATRAINS. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

...miniature brickbats, and the grapes not always what they should be. Another grievance comes, however, from the opposite quarter. Certain men, who presumably work in Boylston Hall, will persist in coming into Memorial, and sitting down to table with a respectable set of men, when they are reeking with vile chemical odors, the offensiveness of which they seem to ignore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

...have one more bit of negative advice for you, and then I will end my letter with a few words of worldly wisdom about human nature and the way in which you ought to treat your fellow-beings. The truth is, if you will pardon a vile pun on that last sentence, that you ought not to treat them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 10/20/1876 | See Source »

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