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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many years later, the hour for morning prayers was seven o'clock. In 1786 the prescribed hour was six a.m. At this time a recitation was held directly after chapel and before breakfast, which was served at half past seven...
...papered last fall and grumbled because the authorities took such precautions against the hanging of papers containing arsenic may now feel considerable self-satisfaction as they read of the cases of poisoning in Felton and in several Cambridge dwellings. The necessity of extreme care has been strongly emphasized the past few months, and all who contemplate having their rooms newly papered may well take every precaution for their health. We are surprised that the proprietors of Felton should have neglected to submit papers, which were to be hung on walls in the building, to a most careful examination...
...next number of the Lampoon comes out Friday. It will contain a list of all the past editors of the paper...
...students to take some such interest in the labor question as is taken by university men in England and Germany. That the present is as opportune a time as any for stimulating such an interest, can be seen by any one who has read the daily papers for the past week. Yet so far as accomplishing anything in this direction goes, Mr. Brooks' lectures seem to have fallen flat...
...Cambridge Tribune indulges in a complaint against Harvard athletes for using North Avenue as a running track. "Squads of them," says the Tribune, "frequently monopolize the sidewalk, crowding to one side persons who happens to be in the way as they rush past. Sometimes they select the street, and frighten horses as they run by them, clad in airy gymnasium costume. This use of a principal street as a training ground is getting to be an intolerable nuisance, and should be stopped." Of course, we regret very much that Harvard men should be the cause of an "intolerable nuisance." although...