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...Harvard's morality or immorality. It merely shows that here there are more opportunities to bring out a man's evil propensities. Neither is Harvard the place for the weakling, who, thanks to the watchful eye of a loving parent, has never seen the world outside of the orbit of the apron-strings. With an exultant sense of freedom he will plunge into the wildest dissipation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Morality. | 1/23/1886 | See Source »

...observations on comets have been conducted with zeal and success - the assistants working day and night continuously when a new comet is discovered - so that several times this observatory has had the honor of announcing its orbit to America and Europe in advance of all others. The first accurate position obtained for a comet here is forwarded by cable to Europe, and has sometimes preceded the discovery of the comet abroad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD OBSERVATORY. | 11/2/1882 | See Source »

Important observations of the comet have just been completed at the Harvard Observatory, and its orbit has been satisfactorily defined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 10/26/1882 | See Source »

...round the orbit of my dream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY GUIDING STAR. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...departure" of the Everett Athenaeum from the orbit which some of its early friends and former members had confidently asserted to be its only proper one must be a source of hearty congratulation for those most interested. The success that attended the theatricals at Andover and Exeter on Friday the 17th, and Saturday the 18th instant, was such as to make these occasions memorable in the society's history; and if the enthusiasm of an audience means anything, the society will have a hearty welcome whenever it chooses to revisit either of these towns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHENAEUM THEATRICALS. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

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