Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...floats at the boat-house have been put in order very late...
...done good and valued services in presidential parades and the like. The rehearsal of the band last night was well attended and all seemed to show a desire to improve the talent and musical ability of the band, yet there are some members who have been negligent of late and should be awakened to the interests of the band. A brass band is an honor of which the college ought to be proud, and those who are able to play any band instrument should not let this organization decline for want of torch-light processions...
...thirteenth of this month the General Court was invited to dine at college, at which time it was called Hollis Hall in gratitude to the late and present worthy gentleman of that name - since that time the Small-Pox has been in Boston in 20 familys which has drove a third almost of this people out of Boston, and the General Court adjourned to the College, the Council to the Library, and the House, to the Hall where they have met for the despatch of Public Business till last Wednesday; for on Tuesday night about 12 o'clock...
...Bourne adduces as another reason to account for Yale's slow growth, the fact that "some sixty per cent. of her students come from outside the state, a large proportion from the West;" that the Western colleges have been improving rapidly of late, and that thus the competition with Yale for this Western contingent is increasing from year to year, - the result of which is detrimental to Yale. Mr. Bourne wholly forgets the fact that Harvard's percentage of undergraduates from the West is not decreasing, but, on the contrary, is growing rapidly and continually. What explanation can he offer...
English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Messrs. Tyler and Vogel. Suspension of the Habeas Corpus during the late war. Sever...