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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is no year which has been attended with so many additions and changes, which has made itself conspicuous for something more than those usual advances resulting from natural growth. If Harvard has been stepping but moderately forward in preceding years, she has been actually striding forward during the past year. It is therefore well worth while to look back over the year, which is now so nearly closed, and note the changes which have taken place...
...gladness there runs a thread of sadness. No more shall the familiar walls re echo the cry of '85,- each class as it leaves becomes simply a memory of the past. It is fitting that that memory should be drowned in a last prolonged rejoicing. The day on which the sun nowhere else shines so brightly, on which even the ancient gods seem nowhere to smile so kindly as at the college which gave it birth is a fitting close to the years of labor. Then let us take leave of the day with its coolness and its quiet...
About 8500 books have been added to the library during the past year...
...least, when the other colleges which go to make up the inter-collegiate base-ball league are soundly abusing one another for alleged attempt at rattling visiting nines by yelling at errors, and hooting at victorious and defeated teams, to look back upon the record of Harvard for the past year, unblemished by a single ungentlemanly act. Another point to be remembered with gratification is that the feeling between the three great universities,- Harvard, Yale and Princeton-is now more friendly and cordial than it has been for years past. The history of this year's struggle for the pennant...
...class day committee are making great efforts to have every thing pass off in the most enjoyable manner on Friday next, and if they are aided by the students the class day of '85 will be no exception to the long line of brilliant days of the past. The committee hope in one respect to improve upon the past, and that is in keeping out of the yard objectionable persons who have entered in the evening in spite of the most strenuous efforts of those in charge. This year unusual precautions will be taken; the gate-keepers will be especially...