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...confess to having used our scissors rather freely in making up the article entitled, "Philadelphia's Provincialism," which appears on another page. But the subject is so ably presented by the writer to the Nation that it had been folly for us to attempt to better it. Of course to college men the subject has interest chiefly because of its relations to college life and influence, for Philadelphia's provincialism seems to be attributed in a very large measure to the policy of the University of Pennsylvania, the chief educational institution in that district. The name "University" is made...
...Friday last, at five minutes past twelve, there left Harvard Square two street-cars, laden with two tons of humanity and half a ton, more or less, of yet-to-be-developed music. The passengers were the members of the "Pierian Sodality and Harvard Glee Club," billed to appear in a concert at Portland. The street-cars, driven at the exhilarating speed usual in Cambridge, reached the main depot in ample time for the Portland train, and unloaded their freight into a couple of drawing-room cars. These immediately assumed a character which it is safe to say they never...
...next numbers of the Advocate and Lampoon will appear to-morrow...
...There does not appear to be any likelihood of a contest for the two seats which, despite the parricidal attempt of Professor Bryce, are still allotted to the University of Oxford. The position of Sir J. Mowbray and Mr. Talbot is the most enviable that can be imagined. Not to be dictated to by a Caucus or Association, not to be compelled to make election speeches, or submit to unlimited 'heckling,' not to have to canvass the illiterate voter or the impracticable crotcheteer, not to have to open charitable bazaars, or preside at philanthropic meetings; in short to possess...
...Brewer; from '87, F. S, Coolidge, G. P. Furber, E. H. Rogers; from '88, R. H. Fuller, W. Barnes, Jr., L. McK. Garrison; and from '89, P. D. Trafford, G. T. Keyes, B, C. Weld, W. G. Rantoul, E. W. Grew. The following gentlemen were unable to appear for various reasons; from '86, J. H. Huddleston, A. D. Claflin, A. H. Vogel; from '87, G. A. Morrison, E. J. Weeks, F. E. E. Hamilton; from '88, M. H. Clyde, W. D. Bancroft, G. A. Carpenter; from '89, W. S. Scott. Mr. Roberts was elected president of the meeting...