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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present on the club is thirty-two. Heretofore the freshman glee clubs have contained not more than twenty-seven voices, but this year, owing to the closeness of the competition, it was thought best to try the experiment of going beyond the usual limit. If it is found later on that the club would do better with fewer men, probably about five voices will be dropped-two from the first basses and one from each of the other parts. The club is not quite as far advanced as the Ninety-one club was at this time last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Glee Club. | 2/27/1889 | See Source »

...describing the architrave, metopes, triglyphs and frieze, Dr. Wheeler touched upon the peculiar feature of the architecture of the temple known as the horizontal curves. The cellar is raised two steps above the floor of the outer colonnade. Above the columns of the cellar the ordinary plain architrave is found, but rising above this is a continuous frieze, unbroken by metopes. This frieze is sculptured along its entire length...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Wheeler's Third Lecture. | 2/26/1889 | See Source »

...said that the professors of any particular college are not competent to regulate its discipline and curriculum, we answer that they are in that case unfit for their places, and that better men should be found, and better salaries paid, if necessary, to get them, and not that the government of the college should be handed over to persons burdened with other cares, and whose chief attention is given to other subjects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York Post on College Discipline at Harvard. | 2/26/1889 | See Source »

...FOUND-By the janitor in Stoughton in the yard a seal plush glove. The owner may secure it by calling at 17 Stoughton and proving his claim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 2/26/1889 | See Source »

...found that on an average about thirty or thirty-five men from each graduate class enter college. Of these Harvard claims nine or ten, Yale about the same number, while the rest are divided between Trinity, Columbia and Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Paul's School. | 2/25/1889 | See Source »

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