Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...LECOCQ, the composer of La Fille de Madame Angot, is engaged on a new operetta entitled Frederick the Great. The scene is laid in Holland, and the flute-playing monarch is the leading character...
...BRADFORD, Asst. Treasurer.MESSRS. A. and C. Black, of Edinburgh, have in press, for immediate publication, a complete edition of the works of E. A. Poe. This collection will appear in four monthly parts, containing many new pieces, and will endeavor to place this eccentric author in a more favorable light...
...indorsed by the Steward a deduction of almost one half per cent is made, and for this no excuse is offered. It is understood to be merely a "shave," without the slightest pretence of right or justice on its side. It was suggested, in defence of the bank, that New York exchange was not as valuable to them as money in Cambridge. This would be very strange, and a case without parallel; but this defence, poor as it was, is destroyed by the fact that this same charge is made even if the check is drawn on a Boston bank...
THERE is in New York State a college called Union College, and its organ, the College Spectator, favors us with some gratuitous advice with reference to the settlement of the Yale-Harvard difficulties, which is, to say the least, amusing. As its deductions are all drawn from the false premise that "Harvard has charged Yale with an attempt of a malicious foul," it is needless to particularize, and we would only suggest that meddling in other people's affairs without any knowledge of the facts is extremely hazardous...
...prospects of the Harvard Medical College were never better. The number joining it from the class of 1874 was unusually large. The effort now being made towards the erection of a new building is well supported, and will no doubt result in success...