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...stories in the last Advocate, which made its appearance yesterday, "The Garden of Sleep," by C. M. Flandrau, is decidedly the best, and it is the best, too, in spite of the fact that it is the most pretentious. The story is of an invalid, - a young man, - who, with his friend and his mother, is spending the winter in a dahabeha on the Nile, and of his death there. The sleepy, sultry atmosphere of the scene is admirably caught, while the interest is well sustained throughout. The words too are well chosen and descriptive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 3/17/1892 | See Source »

...States. The debate of the evening was on the question: Resolved, That a republican form of government is the best for Brazil. R. L. O'Brien, L. S., opened for the affirmative. He declared that all arguments directed against the advisability of government by a democracy in Brazil were invalid; because in becoming a republic, Brazil did not necessarily become a democratic republic. The bloodlines of the late revolution shows that the Brazilians acted from deliberate conviction. Brazil has been gradually educated up to a republican form of government, for the monarchy was so limited as to be little less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Union. | 12/7/1889 | See Source »

...objections raised then are now invalid. Since that time a well-organized and responsible electric light company has established itself in Cambridge, and electric lights have almost entirely superseded gas in the various stores around the college. The cost of putting electric lights in the library would be comparatively slight-in fact, insignificant in comparison to what it would have cost three years ago. We have heard that the corporation do not wish to put electric lights in the library until they have money enough to light the yard and law school library at the same time. There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/14/1889 | See Source »

Every Memorial and Yard ticket will bear the name of the purchaser. Erasing or changing that name will render the ticket invalid, and liable to confiscation at the gate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Day Notice. | 6/19/1888 | See Source »

Every Memorial and Yard ticket will bear the name of the purchaser. Erasing or changing that name will render the ticket invalid, and liable to confiscation at the gate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Day Notice. | 6/18/1888 | See Source »

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