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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...BROWN, Captain.LOST.- Yesterday between Jarvis field and Weld Hall, a brier-wood pipe with bone mouth piece. Finder please leave at Leauitt and Peirce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 10/20/1888 | See Source »

...years 775 and 520 B. C., Israel was invaded many times by great armies-first by the Assyrians, then by the Babylonians, and still later by the Persians. At the same time there was great corruption, social and moral, within the Hebrew nation. These men, believing themselves the mouth-pieces of God, kept the old Jewish faith and patriotism alive by denouncing the wretchedness of the rulers and painting the glorious future of the Jewish people. They declared that all the misfortunes of the nation were manifestations of God's displeasure. Their prophecies concerning the brilliant future of the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Book of "Amos." | 4/19/1888 | See Source »

...Times in its account of the Harvard-Oxford race, spoke of the "Ah! Ah!-Ah!" of the American college men. A letter to the Nation comments on this, and attacks the college for its abandonment of the "fine old lung" cheer (Hurrah), and its adoption of this "mouth-cheer, without either force or dignity." This brings out better several answers in strong support of our present cheer. The arguments or impressions of the writers are hardly interesting, except from what they say of the origin of the "Rah!" cheer, as follows: "In 1864 the college turned out, probably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/10/1887 | See Source »

Fifty-eight years ago no student at Yale was permitted to go sailing without first securing permission from the president; and no permission could be obtained to sail beyond the mouth of the harbor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/21/1887 | See Source »

...furnish a "cage" in the gymnasium in which to practice hand-ball. In truth, a cage seems to be the only suitable place for the majority of them. Now and then a man will toss a piece of cake in the air, and endeavor to catch it in his mouth when it falls, a trick worthy of an organ grinder's monkey, but entirely out of place in a dining room. Now let these freshmen who have not been with us long enough to know that Harvard is no nursery, turn over a new leaf and expend some of their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 2/2/1887 | See Source »

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