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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This society was founded, as its name implies, in the year 1770. It was established by a few students who banded together for the purpose of improving themselves in elocution. For some thirty years after its foundation, it was called the Speaking Club of 1770. Unlike most societies which are established for this purpose, its existence was not imperilled by the large number of its rivals, but on the contrary it "swallowed up" numerous societies of smaller growth. In 1773, the Mercurian Club of 1771 was merged into the Speaking Club. At this time the proceedings of the club were...
...members of the class of 1797, and is the leading senior and junior society. It numbers a little less than one hundred, three-fourths of whom are chosen during the junior year of a class, the rest being chosen the following year. The origin of the name is as follows: In the year 1795, while the students were living together in commons, a member of the class of 1797, who was suffering from ill-health, hired an old lady living near by to cook him regularly some hasty pudding, thinking that this diet would be beneficial...
...members of the Yale foot-ball team were given their trophies yesterday. They are miniature gold footballs an inch long, and about half an inch in diameter. On one side is inlaid in blue enamel the name of the owner and the "Champion," 1883, and on the other side the letters "Y. U. F. B. C.," and "Points Won 489, lost 4." They were made by Ford, and are of tasty design...
...crowded chapel awaited the service in Appleton Chapel last evening, at which Prof. Harris, - whose name has been brought prominently forward in the recent Andover trial, - was to preach. The service opened with a short prayer, which was followed by the reading of the Seventy-second Psalm. The long prayer was a petition for unity and peace among all people. After a hymn sung by the congregation, Prof. Harris gave out the text from St. Matthew, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." This was humanitarianism. A comparison of unreligious and Christian humanitarianism would be the subject of the sermon...
...CLARK.GLEE CLUB AND BANJO CLUB. - A special drawing-room car will be attached to the Fall River train leaving Boston at 3.40 p.m. to-day. Special Tickets are to be obtained at the ticket office on mention of name...