Word: careers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from lack of that sup port which ought cheerfully to be given to it. The Lampoon has stood easily at the head among college publications of its kind, not only in illustrations but in reading matter, and has always been a credit to the university. Looking back on its career it seems incredible that such a paper, one that is representative in every sense, could be suffered to discontinue for financial reasons, and yet the fact is staring the college in the face. There is no valid reason why the four hundred subscribers should not be secured, and they will...
...measure was responsible for the chronic defeat met with everywhere. No objection whatever is offered to their reorganization in the fall, and the chances are that if the obnoxious element is kept out, and the right men obtain control, lacrosse will once more be set on its booming career, and may after all turn out a credit instead of a disgrace to Columbia...
...following from the N. Y. Tribune relative to Emerson's career at Harvard will doubtless serve as a solace to many: "It is recorded that, like many students subsequently distinguished, his collegiate rank was not a high...
...biographies of the late Henry W. Longfellow, in our modest opinion, the best has come from the press of Moses King, of the class of '81. It is no small task to render pleasant and entertaining the history of the life of such a man as Longfellow. His career can hardly be called an eventful one; he passed the most of his days in quiet and peace, "within the shade of his own fig tree." The many blessings that fortune had given him enabled him to live apart from the noise and strife of the more unfortunate part of society...
...Cincinnati by storm. The theatre was crowded nightly to witness her performances and the critics pronounced her the finest actress even in America. It is told us by one who has recently seen her performance of "Adrienne," that she shows a remarkable improvement in her acting since her inauspicious career in Boston, but her pronunciation is still seriously at fault...