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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...social- meeting of the graduates of different colleges who are pursuing their studies at Harvard was held last evening at 140 Mt. Auburn street. The purpose of the meeting was to form a graduate class at Harvard. The following guests were invited: President Eliot, Professor A. P. Peabody, Professor N. S. Shaler, Mr, Bolles and Mr Chamberlain. Over fifty men were present...
...election of last September was the most important since 1871. It was not merely a question whether Boulanger should be elected or not, but one of much deeper import. The republican government has been in office for about twenty years and the question was whether this form of government should remain. As the answer was doubtful before the election the republicans, to gain their ends, passed some laws which might be questioned. Boulanger had joined the royalists, and as it was the law that all the nominees should be voted for on one ballot this coalition was very strong...
...still the people are not entirely satisfied with the republicans. Ever since they have held power they have been instituting changes in all the departments of Frencs life. The people are getting tired of these changes but the only way to stop them is to oust the republicans and form a new conservative party which shall respect the Catholic church and follow the wishes of the people...
...property is placed in the hands of five trustees, graduates of Harvard and men interested in rowing, who intend to form a club of which any student in the university may become a member by paying a fee. The members, and members only, are to have free use of the boats. Enough boats. comprising eights, fours, pairs and singles are to be put in to accomodate seventy men. The object of the giver is to create an interest in rowing among men outside of the crews, so that the 'Varsity may have a larger field of practiced men to choose...
...idle, but even harder at work than in the winter. The most interesting piece of news from this department is the generous gift of $50,000, by Miss C. W. Bruce, of New York, for a photographic telescope. The instrument will be made with a double lens, a new form not yet adopted by European astronomers, but considered by Professor Pickering far superior to single lens telescopes. It will have an aperture of twenty-four inches. Its focal length will be short, and consequently it will include a large area of the sky at once, and will also obtain images...