Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...well-known firm of -, with Miss - , daughter of -, Esq. The fair bride was elegantly attired in a -, trimmed with the richest point lace. The entire outfit is said by those in the secret to have cost $10,000 in Paris, and is the most elegant thing in its way ever seen in this city. The sacred edifice was profusely decorated by an elaborate floral display from the well-known house of -, of this city...
Such literary formulae may be of great convenience to editors and reporters; but after they have been learned by the reading public, they begin to lose, in a large degree, their effect. If an item of intelligence is worth mentioning at all (and, by the way, the fact of such worthiness should be more fully established than is generally the case), it deserves a distinct and appropriate description, and not one made up of cast-off metaphors and worn-out expressions that have already served to describe similar occasions, time out of mind...
...which, too, the Faculty were praised for their moderation and sympathy with the students, himself received a private. It is indeed a censurable act for any one to call a man in the third story to the window by throwing a snowball at that window. Much better in every way, more gentlemanly and more soothing to all in the immediate neighborhood, is it to stand in the yard and shout your friend's name...
...still, numbers every Tuesday visit the Dean to receive punishment for their misdeeds. Our police authorities are quick to espy any man who carries a bat or ball through the yard. From the time he comes out of Weld to the moment he passes from the gate on his way to Jarvis, the eye of some proctor is upon him. If any dare to transfer the ball from one hand to another, even if they roll it about in one hand, one acute interpreter of the college laws asserts that they are playing ball. Of course such a strict interpretation...
...that the author of the plea for an election system should give the following advice? "Elect stern simplicity in dress..... Elect muscle for physical dependence. Dare to mount a wall unassisted; and, further-more, choose a five-mile walk, with a study of nature's coloring by the way, in place of working dogs and dahlias in worsted. Elect a course of reading for a series of formal calls. Elect a little self-control for screaming at a snake." Is it possible that these students are otherwise than simple in their dress; that they wear aught but waterproofs and thick...