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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Candidates for second year honors universally express satisfaction at the examinations recently held. The examinations in every instance have shown forethought and consideration, and what was unusually admirable was the apparent care that had been taken to equalize any advantages that might have arisen from having pursued certain courses...
When the Pope heard of the assassination in Dublin he sent instructions to the Irish bishops to request the clergy to express from their pulpits execration of the crime, and exhort the faithful to respect the law of the land...
...fast express train between New York and Boston, leaving New York at 4.30 P. M., was fired upon at New Haven last evening...
...congratulate the Leaves, however, on its brightness under the present disadvantageous state of affairs, and make bold to express the hope that, in a place where the "Rights of Women" are so strongly advocated their rights may be made practical, even in a matter of so small importance as the management of an academy paper...
PRETTY STRONG.We desire to express our entire concurrence with our E. C. the Spectator in regard to the arrangements for a four-mile race. Were our oarsmen prize fighters and professional athletes four miles would be the correct distance for the race; but as they are not, we consider that distance brutal, and advocate most sincerely the adoption of a three-mile race. - [Acta...