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...allowed to do so, therefore, I should like to suggest that, in addition to securing occasional speakers to address the society, the society itself should do active work. It should hold at least bi-weekly meetings for the discussion of temperance questions which must be argued before the people long and well are we can claim a victory. At these meetings papers should be read and discussed, and in a great variety of ways could the time be profitably employed for those of us who in after life expect to war against the curse of strong drink. I am aware...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TOTAL ABSTINENCE LEAGUE. | 9/29/1883 | See Source »

Governor Hoyt of Pennsylvania has fixed Tuesday, Oct. 24, as a legal holiday for the observance of the bi-centennial throughout the State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVETIES. | 10/17/1882 | See Source »

...favorable light, while the board of the Advocate disagreed upon the subject. In order to terminate all controversy, the Crimson has decided to issue a weekly, confident that one such paper will meet with a large patronage among the students, and fully fill the place now occupied by two bi-weeklies. There has been no doubt for some time past that there would have to be some change in Harvard journalism, for very few, if any of the students, feel inclined to subscribe for three bi-weeklies and two dailies, for the sake of obtaining college news. With one good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD ENOUGH, CRIMSON! | 6/17/1882 | See Source »

...Williams Athenaeum has come out as an illustrated bi-weekly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 6/1/1882 | See Source »

...Brunonian says: "The Harvard papers have quite taken the lead in the light-story literature toward which nearly all the best college bi-weeklies have been tending during the current year. It has been found that deep and weighty articles, however well thought out and however well written, fail to command the same attention of the readers as light, entertaining stories, setting forth some ridiculous situation or recounting some amusing episode...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/24/1882 | See Source »

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