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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...beautiful oil painting of the boathouse, with a view of the tower of Memorial in the distance is on exhibition in the window of Leavitt and Peirce's store. It is the work of Mr. Stewart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/14/1884 | See Source »

...Harvard freshmen, 99 per cent. part their hair in the middle, 38 per cent. use oil of bergamot, 10 per cent. go to recitations without gloves, 67 per cent. chew tobacco, 17 per cent. eat hasheesh. [Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/8/1884 | See Source »

...that its use for lighting the yard would bring the quiet retirement of the latter into the rude glare of publicity. The still air of delightful studies would be tainted with this poison. Perhaps this may be true; yet the irrepressible conflict between the electric light and the midnight oil is not to be avoided even at Harvard. The use of this light in the library certainly is not open to this objection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/1/1884 | See Source »

Cornell University has oil portraits of its founder, of James Russel Lowell, Goldwin Smith, and of Louis Agassiz; all by the painter Carpenter. Dr. William D. Wilson and John McGraw, (by Purdy,) Justin H. Morrill, (by Johnson,) and Peter Cooper (by a student at Cooper Union) are represented. There are portraits of Humboldt, Garret Smith, and Prudence Crandall, who organized a school for colored children in the early days of Abolitionism. Busts of Lincoln, by Vinnie Ream-Hoxie; of Prof. G. W. Greene, by Crawford; of President White, William C. Russell, and Dr. Wilson, form some of the historical pieces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/16/1884 | See Source »

...latest improvement in bicycle manufacture is the kerosencycle. It is like the tricycle, but the propelling power is obtained by an engine located under the seat, in which a pressure is generated by the aid of kerosene oil and compressed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/14/1883 | See Source »

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