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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...apologetic utterances on that evening tended to strengthen that belief. Mr. Lodge, brilliant and able man as he is, was unable to follow what he calls the "path of principle," when brought face to face with it two years ago. An earnest opponent of Mr. Blaine, he went to Chicago avowedly to oppose that gentleman's methods and personality, and as the champion of reform and pure government. When he was defeated, he turned to the right about, and supported zealously the very man he had been describing the day before as unprincipled and corrupt. I am sorry that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/25/1886 | See Source »

...Harvard School of Chicago will send about eleven men to Yale next all. - Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/20/1886 | See Source »

...Through the generosity of Hon. Henry J. Furber, '59, of Chicago, one of the vacant panels upon the south side of the chapel will soon be filled. The painting will be upon canvas, mounted on a movable stretcher, and will, undoubtedly, be finer than any of those which at present adorn the walls of King Chapel. Mr. Frederic Vinton, of Boston, one of the finest portrait painters in the country, will be the artist. The subject selected is "Adam and Eve," by Flandrin, one of the decorations in the church of Saint Germain des Pres, Paris. The original is regarded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/25/1886 | See Source »

...abolition of prayers, the faculty of Yale are bragging because the young men at that institution are asking for more and earlier petitions to the throne of grace. Yale will get even with Harvard for beating it in that boat race if such a thing is possible. - Chicago Herald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/2/1886 | See Source »

...Chicago young lady was looking at three large photographs representing the foot-ball teams of Yale, Princeton and Harvard, for the year 1885. Her father was a Harvard man, her fiance was a Princeton man; and her fiance's father was a Yale man. After scrutinizing each picture critically, she gave as her conviction that the Princeton men were the handsomest, the Harvard men the most distinguished, and the Yale men the most enduring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/16/1886 | See Source »

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