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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wrote, "Did S. J. Tilden, 1883, receive a condition in Sophomore Themes?" A noise of confused rumbling and rattling came from the interior of the machine. Then a bell sounded, and the phonograph began, "He -" But here, alas, I awoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GHOSTLY FUTURITIES." | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

...latest theory is that Professor Ko wrote that Chinese letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

...conclusion that all the extracts were equally well adapted for that praiseworthy purpose. Despairing of understanding anything in their paper, I resolved that the examiners should understand nothing in my book. So, being acquainted with Choctaw (a language which closely resembles, yet is totally different from Greek), I wrote in this tongue stories of Indian mythology which I thought might be parallel to the Greek myths. When the examination was over, I walked out feeling that, whatever the examiners might say, they could not accuse me of being commonplace. Well, tempus fugit (notice my exact knowledge of Latin quantity...

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

MAUD. Here's one I wrote myself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

...Senior year he finished his efforts for the welfare of his class. He wrote a note to a gentleman interested in such matters to say that the examination papers were sold. He usurped the office of a certain great man, and sent a letter to the mother of an acquaintance advising her to remove him from college. But the lady did not answer, and his classmates sent him to Coventry; and he was n't class orator, and he did n't marry the marshal's sister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROMANCE OF A PIOUS YOUTH. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

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