Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Theatre at 8 o'clock this evening. Mr. John Fox, Jr., will give a brief talk on the southern mountaineer as New England's ally in the Civil War, and will read passages from "The Kentuckians"; "Courtin' on Cutshin'," "Hell fer Sartain," "A Trick o' Trade," "Preachin' on Kingdom Come," "The Passing of Abe Shivers," and "The Message on the Sand." Mrs. May Alden Ward will preside...
...BOARD OF ASSESSORS."Some of the houses in question have been taxed in the past when occupied by persons not connected with the University. The matter will come up at the next meeting of the City Council and will then probably go to the Supreme Court for final settlement...
...Harvard man should blush for shame" for such an occurrence, and that such conduct threatens the very existence of the lecture system of instruction, the affair becomes more comic than its perpetrators could possibly have hoped. When we are grave they call us stiff-necked and blase; when we come down to a perfectly harmless piece of folly they magnify it to an outrage and still call us children. Considering the character of the trick, I cannot imagine that it should have been conceived in any spirit but that of harmless fun-a spirit which seldom enough gets the better...
...last business to come before the meeting was the election of the twenty-four members of the executive committee. The result was the election of the twenty-four men whose names had been proposed by the committee on organization, although twenty-six other men received scattering votes. Major H. L. Higginson's name was withheld from the nominations at his request on account of his being a member of the Corporation...
...remembered in considering the future of the association that solid progress must come slowly. There is to be no sudden change in athletic affairs. Such an institution will grow into usefulness by a gradual process...