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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these two trained musical societies of the college; and when the opportunity arrives it should not be neglected. The concert this winter will, in all probability, be of more than usual excellence. For, while the Glee club expects to maintain the excellent reputation which it has enjoyed in the past, the Pierian Sodality was never in so flourishing a condition as at present. Unprecedented efforts, by means of numerous rehearsals, have been made in preparation, and the club will no doubt surpass all its former performances...
...President Eliot of Harvard, President McCosh of Princeton, and President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University, all of whom are said to have rowed on their respective 'Varsity crews, In England it is well known that a large proportion of the most influential men in public affairs during the past century took part during their college days in some kind of athletic sport, either in cricket, foot ball, rowing or some other branch...
...observed with much satisfaction that the students were beginning to take the initiation in the abolition of college prayer, so far as relates to compulsory attendance. Their neglect to do so hitherto has been very discoursing to me in my guerrilla warfare on the regulations during the past two years, and I had been planning to prepare a memorial, signed by myself alone, for the coming meeting of the overseers. But now comes your note of yesterday, and I gladly yield the floor to those who are better entitled...
...announcement which we publish in other column of the Committee on Athletics of the Faculty, although certainly sudden and unexpected, is not altogether surprising when we remember the hostile attitude which the committee has maintained towards foot ball for the past two years...
...success and prosperity of the now famous Harvard Annex. The building is a regular old "stager" in its way, a frame structure, nearer the shape of a cube than of anything else, painted a dirty yellow with white trimmings, and generally beautiful, one of the remnants of past ages (appropriate, some have called it), like so many other of the old standard houses that one finds in Cambridge. However imposing such an exterior may be, the interior is wrapped in mystery for the student mind. The building is the headquarters of the "Annex." but who knows more? We pass...