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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Union Debate has been postponed to Thursday evening, January 15, on account of the lecture on Protection to be given by Prof. Thompson next Thursday evening. Question: "Resolved, That the district system of electing the President proposed by Senator Morton, should be adopted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union Debate Postponed. | 1/7/1885 | See Source »

...account of the cold," instead "on account of a cold," is the wording of excuses for prayer cuts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/22/1884 | See Source »

...amount of vituperation and abuse which the New York Sun has received from the Princeton and Yale papers on account of the sensational account of the Thanksgiving game in the Sun. can hardly be conceived of by one who has not read the papers themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/19/1884 | See Source »

...Wilder is probably the oldest undergraduate in the world. He entered the University of Vermont with the class of '32, but was compelled to leave on account of ill health. He has recently entered '85 in that institution, and hopes to take his degree next June.-[Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/19/1884 | See Source »

...between eights and that the course at New London is not broad enough to allow more than two. crews to row a straight course. If three crews started off together, a crooked course, according to the bends of the river, would have to be followed. Such a course, on account of the current in the middle of the river, would be manifestly unfair to the outside boats. Eel grass would then justly serve as an excuse for the defeated crews. Moreover, the trouble involved in getting a fair race between two eights at New London is so great, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/15/1884 | See Source »

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