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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Cleveland never attended a college of any kind. The acting vice-president, John Sherman, is a graduate of the common schools of Ohio. The secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard, never got farther than a Delaware rural academy. The speaker of the House of Representatives, John G. Carlisle, is a self educated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/26/1886 | See Source »

...assessments. This plan for a university club is by no means a new one, in fact, the matter was discussed in the old Harvard Herald some few years ago. Yet the project has many points to commend it to favorable deliberation. For instance, by forming a club of this kind with a large membership, a small assessment fee would be amply sufficient to provide many desirable features of club life, such as a good reading-room, a comfortable smoking room, and telephone and mailing facilities. We think the scheme is worthy of discussion, and we envite communications on the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/23/1886 | See Source »

...financial way, from the college at large." That they deserve this support can be doubted by no one who has come to know the Lampoon in its successful career. The paper that is known in and out of Cambridge as the best college paper of its kind is certainly an honor to Harvard, and should have the support of all Harvard men who are able to contribute to it either from their pockets or from their brains. We hope that our sister paper will have no reason to complain of lack of support from the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/20/1886 | See Source »

...which we breathe is filled with floating particles of matter of every description; of course various circumstances regulate the quantity and kind. When we breathe air which has once been breathed, we are taking into our lungs air from which the necessary oxygen has been withdrawn and the poisonous carbonic acid substituted. oxygen we can get best from out-door air and from that of the country rather than that of the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Health and Strength. IX. | 2/18/1886 | See Source »

...were steadily replenished all the afternoon, mugs ad libitum being provided for all comers. There were singing, dancing, speaking intermingled with unlimited drinking. Not the slightest attempt was made to control or repress this. It was simply a brutal, howling orgies. There was little attempt at fun, no kind of system or traditional order, nothing but steady drinking and the resulting drunkenness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The History of Class Day. | 2/16/1886 | See Source »

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