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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rags were in the building, as has been said, by which the fire could have caught. No light was in the building; no smokers were there. It is becoming more firmly believed that the fire was deliberately set. Two other fires have occurred in Amherst suspiciously like this in origin. The destructive fire in Cook's block, and the fire in Palmer's block, and the fire in Palmer's block each originated in the attic in such a way as to warrant suspicion that they were incendiary; the Walker Hall fire began in the same place. Just...
...international college of ethnologists is to be opened at Geneva on April 3, divided into the seven following sections: Origin and migration of peoples; ethnology; descriptive ethnography; theoretical ethnography; manners and customs; political ethnography; international regulations...
...again, if, as Epicurus says : The origin and root of all good is in the pleasure of eating, we may not only get a natural portrait but a portrait of man at his best, i. e., when happiest...
...Gustavus Boeckmann will lecture under the auspices of the Philological Society on the "Origin and Development of the Jus Gentium in Roman Law," in Sever 11, Friday, March...
...York Times grows facetions over the matter of college "jokes." They are all, it says, of immemorial age, and are clearly of vandal, not of classic origin. "The college faculties do not yet seem to have perceived the extreme humor of the college joke. What they ought to do is to join in it themselves with great energy and with the help of a few humorous policemen and a witty magistrate. Let them kidnap a few sophomores, just as the latter are returning from the kidnapping of a freshman. Let the kidnapped sophomores be brought before the witty magistrate...