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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Every dog has his day; rather hard on the poor cur whose day comes on the 29th of February. What a fearful cold day it will be for him this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/24/1882 | See Source »

...expect a man entirely unaccustomed to labor to do a hard day's work, neither can we expect one whose brain has been comparatively inactive to commence suddenly upon ten hours of work each day. Yet this is precisely what many of us are doing, and when our exhausted mind refuses to go further, we complain of the great amount of work laid upon us, and say that no human being could reasonably be expected to do it, forgetting that in most cases the fault lies in ourselves, and our own faithfulness from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/24/1882 | See Source »

...think it is awful to flirt? I never flirt when any one I know is watching me, because I really think it's wicked. I've bet a pair of gloves that Harvard would beat Yale next summer in the foot-race. I've bet with Pinky Ashton, whose brother is a Yale soph do you think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER FROM A YOUNG LADY. | 1/23/1882 | See Source »

...hundred thousand dollars has been subscribed for the new Law School professorship, $90,000 of which was given by one man, whose name is not published. Mr. O. W. Holmes, Jr., has been asked to fill the chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/23/1882 | See Source »

...Boston daily paper recently said, "Daniel Webster again bestrides the country like a colussas," which is extremely good for a paper whose employes are supposed to know the rudiments of spelling, at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/23/1882 | See Source »

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