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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THE Freshmen and Sophomores played a match game of foot-ball on Thursday afternoon, in which '77 came off best.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

ANY undergraduates who wish to join the "Verein" should make application before next Thursday evening, as the list of membership will then be closed.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

THE Italian Opera (Maretzek's troupe) has been for the past two weeks at the Boston Theatre, and the season has proved a failure both financially and musically. Lucca and Jamet are not able to create a success, when all the other artists and the entire support are so very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

A very entertaining pamphlet, being sometimes highly ludicrous at places where "the laugh" was hardly intended to "come in" by the author. It is written from the antediluvian-proslavery point of view. Unparalleled and impossible virtues are invented for the past, and every exceptional case of transgression in modern times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

Among the gems of purest lustre to be found in this sparkling brochure, we may quote his playful allusion to the Reverend Theodore Parker as a "spawn of hell"; his tribute to our honored chief-magistrate, -

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

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