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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hear a merry chorus from some small knot of men lying lazily on the grass, nor was it thought a source of wonder if the Glee Club gathered on the steps of Holworthy or Matthews, and gave an hour to the entertainment of the college, - an act of kindness which met with all due appreciation, as was well shown by the cries of "more," "more," with which all such efforts were greeted. Why not, then, have a "revival" at Harvard? No more favorable time can be found than the coming weeks. Let to-night bring with it vox in tenebris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/20/1886 | See Source »

...college students received no official encouragement to enter into researches concerning theatrical matters. But things have changed somewhat. Mr. Bronson Howard, the leading American dramatist, has been telling the Harvard boys how to write plays, and Mr. Henry Irving is expected soon to tell the Oxford boys how to act them, while the Princeton boys have a prosperous dramatic club of their own, which gives public performances with great eclat. - Harpers Weekly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 4/17/1886 | See Source »

Harvard Union Debate, Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Question: "Resolved, That the Preservation of Constitutional Government requires the immediate repeal of the Hoar Presidential Succession Act...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calendar. | 4/15/1886 | See Source »

Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Question: "Resolved: That the Preservation of Constitutional Government requires the immediate repeal of the Hoar Presidential Succession Act...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 4/14/1886 | See Source »

...large classes of people, strangely united in this instance, form the opposition. They act from different motives, in the one case social, in the other religious. They are the very wealthy class in every community and the Roman Catholic denomination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dangers to our Public School System. | 4/5/1886 | See Source »

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