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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cranch, known to many graduates if not to many present members of the college, has discovered an old New England ballad, entitled, "The Mournful Ballad of Isaac Abbott," and published it in artistic pamphlet form. The tale is in truth most mournful, being an account of the ill-fated Isaac, and telling...
...educational writer in France, and a commissioner from the French government to the exposition at New Orleans in 1884, writes one of a series of articles on our educational institutions ten pages, of which are devoted to a flattering description and very high praise of Harvard. We cannot, on account of its length, quote the article, although it would be interesting to Harvard students to see themselves as a foreigner sees them. M. Buisson describes the buildings and grounds, the courses and the general life here. He then goes into a very exhaustive study of our system of athletic training...
...difficulty in getting any potatoes at all, and then, when he does get any, they are, or have been lately, almost unfit for eating. The lunch hour is from 12.30 to 1.30, and presumably the food is as good at 1.15 as at 12.30. There are many, who, on account of recitations, cannot get to Memorial till after one o'clock, and they ought certainly to have enough food, and good food at that. But as an accurate fact, on Friday and Saturday, at one table at least, there was an insufficiency of potatoes; and of the few which were...
...attendance at the rifle-range yesterday was not very large, on account of the severe weather. The best score in the rest match was made by Mr. Dickinson, 25 out of possible 30. The off-hand match was won by Mr. Paine with a score of 40 out of possible...
Last lecture there was a little blue-book circulating in the History 13 section, containing a petition for a list of general readings. The writer of this article put his name down on account of sheer laziness, he admits, but he saw other names that were irreproachable - names of men concerning whom "'88" would hesitate a long while before advancing his accusation of "laziness...