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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Flat" received its initial interpretation at the Tremont theatre last night. The play is built upon the financial difficulties of a young couple who married on nothing, purchased furniture on the installment plan and went to live in a flat, while the husband writes tragedies which are never accepted. The devices to escape creditors and the dismantlement of the flat, followed by the improvising of chairs and sofas out of soap boxes and barrels, form the basis of action. The perilous adventures of persons who sit in these makeshifts and the disasters that ensue, give rise to a number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Theatres. | 12/10/1889 | See Source »

...child had done in its previous existence. The doctrines of this religion penetrates even to the daily life, that is in regard to marriages. Of the two hundred millions of people, there is not a single marriage of inclination. Among them father and mother are indifferent as to the husbands or wives of their children for they believe that all men's souls are but a part of the great soul. Hence the girles are wedded at six or seven years old, and go to live with their husbands at the age of thirteen or fourteen. In case the husband...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sir Edwin Arnold's Lecture. | 10/2/1889 | See Source »

...Huntress, '89, continued for the negative. It is claimed that households will be broken up if husband and wife vote contrawise; but thousands of families at the present time exist in harmony with the husband and wife living under different religious creeds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union Debate. | 12/20/1888 | See Source »

...made of the important fact that "A most attractive incident of the game was the presence inside the ropes of Mrs. Walter C. Camp, wife of Yale's most famous foot-ball player, who followed the ups and downs of the game with the same keen interest as her husband, who had been coaching the Yale team. Bob Cook, the Yale oarsman, was also nervously pacing about the chalk line muttering to himself as he saw the Princeton giants jumping on the little Yale men."- N. Y. Herald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/27/1888 | See Source »

...name of the donor of the new building which is to occupy the corner of the Yale campus where the fence stands, has very recently been learned to be that of Mrs. Edwards Pierrepont of Brooklyn, whose husband was graduated at Yale in 1837. The building is to be put up in commemoration of a son, Henry Edwards Pierrepont, who died in Rome some five years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/29/1888 | See Source »

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