Word: dispatches
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...dispatch has been received at the Harvard Observatory from Kiel, Prussia, announcing the discovery of a new planet...
...dispatch from New Haven to the Boston Herald, dated last evening, says : "A letter was received tonight by the secretary of the Yale Boat Club, from the secretary of the Harvard Boat Club, in which it was stated that Harvard did not understand that the graduate committee had full power in the premises, and asking that they be advised on that point. If the committee had full power in the matter, they could not imagine that a joint committee should be unable to reach a satisfactory conclusion, and they proposed to abide by their decision. But they wished to express...
...Louis Post-Dispatch says that the State University of Missouri is wretchedly managed and poorly supported. "Its buildings are unfit for their purposes, the class-rooms are insufficient and badly heated, there is no accommodation worth speaking of for students, and the zeal and energy so creditably shown by all connected with the university - curators, faculty and students - are painfully mocked by the contrast with the ancient, rickety and poverty-stricked quarters in which learning is compelled to house itself. The State of Missouri has been badly advertised abroad for years. In the older days border raids, guerillas and reprisals...
...dispatch from Paris says that Marshal McMahon is seriously...
...possible that a duel will take place between Senator-Elect Riddleberger of Virginia and Page McCarty, the Washington correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch...