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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certain to get on the crew. Care should be taken in the use of personification, and - in stringing your banjo. I think you will easily see that the writers purpose has been defeated - in three rounds. Personification often lends picturesqueness and - she's a daisy." Is scacely need to point out which are the instructor's words and which those of our talkative friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 1/7/1887 | See Source »

...Society now offers for sale to its members a complete assortment of gentleman's furnishing goods of excellent quality and make. There is scarcely a need which cannot be supplied immediately from the stock always on hand at the store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/6/1887 | See Source »

...college officers who uphold such restrictions could be convinced that thereby they defeat their own cherished purpose, undoubtedly they would make such a change as has been made at Harvard. So long as they shall believe that compulsion tends to the religious improvement of students who need it compulsion will be retained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 1/4/1887 | See Source »

...months past the authorities have been investigating the feasibility of such a plan and have now determined upon adopting it. The one great difficulty in their way was the absence of any available funds for putting light of any kind into the library. But Harvard never lacks friends in need, and a number of gentlemen were found who were willing to contribute for so worthy a purpose. It is but two or three weeks ago that the fund which amounts to $2000 was assured. It was collected in sums varying very much in size, but all given with the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electric Light in the Library. | 12/22/1886 | See Source »

...books will wonder and rejoice when they need no longer pass the long nights in darkness, such as Egypt and Cambridge alone have ever brought forth!. They will almost burst their musty bindings in sending forth a mighty sigh of relief and of gladness. And the students. - we hardly dare contemplate the vast impetus to work which those glowing carbon flaments will give them. Every chair will be filled, every inch of the table eagerly occupied. The man who goes through college without ever having seen the inside of the library will commit a double crime, for he will have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/22/1886 | See Source »

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