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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Miles smoked one cigar ??? many one evening last week, and had to take his meals in his room foe a while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WESTERN COLLEGE JOURNALISM. | 2/8/1883 | See Source »

...full-dress rehearsal of the Pi Eta theatricals takes place this afternoon at 3 o'clock; there will be given the drama, "Our Bitterest Foe," and the farce, "Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/21/1882 | See Source »

...invitation reads, "vanquished in deadly combat their treacherous Legendre." The triumphal procession will start from the Worth monument at 10 P.M., the students wearing white gowns and carrying torches. Preceding the procession will be a band of music, while a wagon, carrying an effigy of the "vanquished foe" will bring up the rear. Ambrose D. Henry will be the imperator of the evening; a poem will be read by the haruspex, J. Foster Jenkins, Jr., and J. H. Ward, Jr., the carnifex, will deliver the oration. These exercises will be held on the college campus, after which the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1882 | See Source »

...They make complaint also of the opposition they have met from envious associates and say: "In a place too where the bad passions should never come, in the sacred groves of Academus, we have witnessed the ineffectual and contemptible emotions of an envious spirit, which has shown itself a foe to its literary seniours." (The Lyceum was published by members of the senior class.) And they continue: "Such has been the treatment which we have received, undeservedly, we trust, from those of the sons of Alma Mater, who, standing in immediate proximity to us, should have been a force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIER HARVARD JOURNALISM. | 4/25/1882 | See Source »

...crown is foe to people: both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILVER CHALICE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

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