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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were admitted into the Church," says the Dartmouth, "last Sunday. It has been completely transformed." The latter statement is certainly a natural consequence of the first; but on reading a little further we find that the church into which the Editors of the Dartmouth were admitted, is not the Church in general, but that belonging to the College; and that the transformation is a material, not a moral...
...first piece, 'Shadow Fancies,' is passable; the next, 'Ballads,' a little better; Vestigia Nulla Retorsum,' awfully poor; 'Student Lamps,' just tolerable; Louis Adolphe Thiers,' good, yea, very good, in fact, the only good article we found; 'Hobbies,' insipid; 'My Friend Balbus,' worse; 'Summer,' worst, - the worst we ever saw. This will do. We do not know how highly cultured the Quarterly's readers may be, but if we may judge of their understandings by the articles written for them, we should say their amount of knowledge, individually, was about that of a four-year-old child...
...foot-ball season did not open as gloriously as we anticipated, for in the first match Harvard gave Columbia the worst defeat she has ever sustained." - Columbia Spectator...
...boating challenge to Harvard is still unanswered. From the Crimson's account of the meeting of the Harvard Boat-Club we gather that the feeling at Harvard is that last summer "the first race was good discipline for the second," and that "the Yale race should be kept independent of all others." Some may be inclined to resent these expressions as showing a spirit of loftiness and condescension on Harvard's part. We trust, however, that no such feeling will arise. It is natural and right that Harvard should particularly wish to defeat Yale, and that she should make other...
...Glee Club and a trio from the Pierian gave a concert in the vestry of the First Congregational Church, Abington, on Tuesday evening, November 20, before a large and unappreciative audience...