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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PHILADELPHIA, January 3, 1879.DEAR SIRS, - Perhaps I ought to ask pardon for my boldness in writing a letter for the perusal, if you care to print it, of so many masculine eyes at such a place as Harvard. The truth is, I have just been to the Glee Club Concert, and my head is a little turned by what I saw and heard, so I am not sure whether I am doing right or not. But at any rate I am not going to ask Ma. You must put the blame on Will (Will is a Junior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GLEE CLUB CONCERT IN PHILADELPHIA. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...Saturday that Will wrote me such a funny note. He was all excited about a Glee Club concert to be given in Philadelphia. He said the Faculty had given consent and the arrangements had been made and the hall hired and the tickets printed and everything, and he asked me to ask all my friends to ask all their friends to go and take every one they knew, for it was not to be advertised like an ordinary concert, but was to be private and right swell, and so I did. We girls grew half wild over it, and those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GLEE CLUB CONCERT IN PHILADELPHIA. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...have come round to ask you to subscribe to the Crimson; you may have seen it," I added, as I discovered that I had entered the abode of an instructor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EVENING'S EXPERIENCE. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...tried another door, and was let in. "Good evening. I am come to ask you whether you would subscribe to the Crimson," and, mindful of my first visit, added an explanation. "It is one of the college papers you know. I have just received eight subscription from your classmates over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EVENING'S EXPERIENCE. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...different character from the former ones. The courses given eight years ago were for the benefit of graduates, and most of them were of a decidedly special character; undergraduates were excluded. The Courses of Study for Bachelors of Arts have taken the place of these lectures, and we now ask for lectures for the benefit of undergraduates, - just such courses, in short, as our professors seem to be so successful in giving elsewhere. There are plenty of subjects about which many of us would be glad to know something, but are prevented from taking any of the special elective courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

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