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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College. His running expenses, then, are $600, leaving, from his total receipts, $2,400, an income of $1,800. The janitor of Weld receives from the College $1,000, and, as nearly as can be estimated, $1,000 from the students themselves. His total expenses are in the neighborhood of $475, which gives him a net income of $1,500 or more. And of these two men, the former is tolerably faithful in his attendance at the building of which he has charge; while the latter repeatedly absents himself and neglects his duty. Not to draw invidious comparisons, what professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PENNY WISE AND POUND FOOLISH." | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...number of tennis sets on Jarvis and Holmes is in the neighborhood of fifty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...have time to speak of only one religious custom of the youths. Their principal god is called Mil Wah Kee; by some, Bir. There are two great shrines of this god in the neighborhood, and the high priests at each are named Adahm and Kahrll respectively. The worship of this god is by libations. The youths are very careful to perform their duties to him at least once every day. As I saw two youths at the shrine, I conjecture that this is the usual form of the ceremonies: One of them calls out and addresses the high priest thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERCEPTED LETTERS. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

...WINSOR will be one of the editors of the new history of Boston, and Professors Gray and Shaler will contribute chapters on the floral and geographical history of the city and its neighborhood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RETORT COURTEOUS. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...GOOD deal of trouble has been given lately to the Secretaries of numerous College associations, by the apparently malicious removal of notices of meetings; &c., from the trees in the neighborhood of the Yard. But some one saw a member of that extremely able, civil, and energetic body, the Cambridge police force, taking down one of the H. A. A.'s posters from a tree on Main Street, and inquiries at the police headquarters revealed an old city ordinance, recently ordered to be enforced, which reads as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANDERS THEATRE CONCERT. | 1/9/1880 | See Source »

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