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LOST.- Probably in the gymnasium on Saturday, a large balck leather pocket-book, with silver corners and cipher letters C. A. L. on the side. In it were some visiting cards of the owner and his H. A. A. membership ticket, bearing the name of C. A. Lewis. Return to 50 Grays and get reward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 3/17/1888 | See Source »

LOST.- Probably in the gymnasium on Saturday, a large balck leather pocket-book, with silver corners and cipher letters C. A. L. on the side. In it were some visiting cards of the owner and his H. A. A. membership ticket, bearing the name of C. A. Lewis. Return to 50 Grays and get reward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 3/14/1888 | See Source »

...pleased, for our vanity of course, is at stake, to see that the figures run up among the garrets in which the article was evidently written. If the article "takes," we trust that next season, or even next week in the distant and truthful west, we may see a cipher or two more added to the sum. With what pleasure should every Harvard student read this glaring account of his "slinging" his papa's money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1885 | See Source »

...taught. He would have the instruction of our colleges touch practical life more closely, and so far as this the advocates of English and scientific education have found a lively champion. The doctor declares that most college students cannot write a plain hand, compose a creditable letter or "cipher" in fractions, and that they are deficient in observation. He wants more chance for the English rudiments which made Washington, Franklin, Jackson and Lincoln...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/20/1883 | See Source »

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