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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON has received the following, with a request for publication: "Prof. James R. Sanders, of South Boston, has recently invented a wonderful machine, a unicycle, which it is claimed even a young child can ride without previous training. The invention will be exhibited to the public near the monument on the common to-day, at 12 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/1/1886 | See Source »

General Sheridan delivered a stirring eulogy on the life and character of General Grant, on Tuesday evening of last week, at the Academy of Music, New York. The lecture was for the benefit of the monument fund, and the audience was large and appreciative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/23/1886 | See Source »

...report of the treasurer of the Longfellow Memorial Association shows that at the last annual meeting, the fund of the association contributed for the erection of a monument and the laying out of a park, amounted to $12,876.50. Since last year, $313.25 has been contributed. Including the interest of the fund ($318.36), the total amount of the fund is $13,508.11. Of this amount, $12,950 has been invested in the purchase of Cambridge city bonds, $57.66 used for expenses, and the balance, $555.58 deposited in a bank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/6/1886 | See Source »

...Shakspere; H. E. Fraser. American Taxation.- Burke; I. L. Winter, Peroration of the Centennial Speech at Yorktown.- Winthrop; G. E. Foss, Eulogy on Wendell Phillips,- G. W. Curtis; W. H. Baldwin, Harvard College in the War. O. W. Holmes, Jr.; J. H. Payne, Dedication of the Soldier's Monument.- Garfield; O. R. Hansen, Wendell Phillips first appearance in Faneuil Hall.- G. W. Curtis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Competitive Speaking for Boylston Prizes. | 5/15/1885 | See Source »

...Quincy, addressed the Club in "Certain Limitations of Art in Relation to its Subjects." A work of art, Dr. Everett said, was commonly judged according to its morale, or its technique. In relation to Art, the subject of Propriety was first discussed, mainly in illustration of the Washington Monument. Dr. Everett drew attention to the fact that when the event was small, in order that it may be remembered, the monument commemorative of the event must be of great account. But that when the monument was a perfect work of art, the appreciation of the grandeur, and simplicity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Art Club. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

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