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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dinners. The audience had come to listen and did not waste time needlessly! (This exclamation mark is our own.) There was no formality, cigars were speedily lighted and every one prepared to endure the speeches as long as speeches were forthcoming. Even the departure of the president at half-past four did not break up the company, which sat without any display of weariness till half-past seven. Truly the Americans are a patient and much enduring race...
...impartial and unprejudiced observer of foot-ball games during the past season, it must have been decidedly apparent that the game, as played by the principle college elevens has very little that will entitle it to public favor. The game is still a violent struggle, where beef counts for almost everything. Two lines of seven men each stand opposed, and what do they do, or rather what do they not do? They push, jostle, wrestle, block, kick, pull, tear and fight with each other. Football is still a game in which men undergo the risk of injury, and serious injury...
...certainly gives a comfortable feeling to Harvard men, to think that almost anywhere they may go, from Maine to California, they can find near them a group of friends and fellow students, on which they can enter as guests, but as more than guests also, as past members...
Nine bicycle riders have been killed the past year by taking headers...
...condition, if we are to judge prosperity strictly by compactness of work. No one at present contends that an ultimate basis for thorough university work in English literature has as yet been attained at Harvard. Indeed, the provision for honors in English has only been in force during the past two years. But we are not to judge prosperity wholly by compactness of execution. There is without question more difficult and peculiarly trying work thrown upon the gentlemen who act as English instructors than upon the professors in any two other departments of the university. The self-sacrifice of Professor...