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Word: masses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MEETING of the delegates of the National Rowing Association of American Colleges has been called. It is to be held at the Bay State House, Worcester, Mass., April 2, 1873. This convention is looked forward to with no little interest, inasmuch as several very important questions will be decided. The place where the regatta is to be held must be determined upon: probably Springfield, Mass., will be selected as the most advantageous situation; if so, this will give that place such a precedent that we can safely expect other races to be held there in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...NIGHT, March 7, there will be given some theatricals in Liberty Hall, at New Bedford, Mass, by a number of Harvard students. The programme consists of the farce "A Turkish Bath," and the popular burlesque" Lurline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...mass of reformation so published and criticised, when sifted down, appears most sorry in dimensions. The greatest reform we have been guilty of is the dethronement of Hazing. We say guilty, not out of sympathy with Hazing, but rather from commiseration for the Sophomores, of which class the "customary" disposition and bent have been to all outward appearances usurped by their exuberant successors. The Sophomores may repudiate our proffered condolence, and tell us what we call usurpation is voluntary abdication. In such case, we beg their pardon. We are sometimes influenced by the memory of our own Sophomore days, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR REFORMS. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...article, one that shall make the public laugh in spite of itself; an onerous task for two reasons, - the public is decidedly opposed to laughing without being tickled, and it is exceedingly difficult to find a sensitive spot whereon to apply the straw. By public we mean the average mass of thinking men and women, excluding wholly that class of constitutional gigglers who laugh alike at David's solemnity and Twain's humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POPULAR WRITER. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

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