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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quarter past two all the seats except those reserved for graduates were filled, and at the hour for commencing many were compelled to stand, the number being fully 1300. The officers had the arrangements well in hand, and at 2.30 the meeting was opened Several additions had been made to the list of entries which reduced the number of expected walkovers. The officers of the day were: Referee, Dr. Dudley A. Sargent; judges, Prof. Wm. E. Byerly '71, and Mr. E. W. Atkinson, '81; referee of sparring, Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly; judges of sparring, Mr. Clifford Brigham...
...writings. The most of these, it may also be remarked, pastured at Harvard. Having occasion recently to write to Mr. Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, the great pioneer paper of the West, to obtain certain facts about college newspaper men, I learned from him that of the past Tribune staff whom he remembered, eleven were college men, and of the present staff, the business manager and eight others are college graduates. That certainly is a good showing,-though I must admit, sad as it may seem, that Yale sent more men to the Tribune than any other college...
...signs himself "A Member of the Historical Society," ends his communication by saying that "whatever can be done to retain the seats in Sever for the grown up people shall be done." It was painfully evident to every student who came to the last lecture later than a quarter past seven, that this rule had not been enforced, unless, indeed, we class the students themselves as infants. As a rough guess, I should say that nearly a quarter of the seats in the hall were occupied by boys from the Cambridge schools, probably, some of whom, to judge by their...
...faculty of Williams College have been obliged to hire a policeman to patrol the college ground to prevent a collision between the sophomores and freshmen. For the past three days can rushing has been indulged in with considerable fierceness...
...Cushing, '83, from the Law School to enter the city force of the Boston Globe adds one more to the rapidly increasing list of recent graduates of Harvard who have taken up the profession of journalism. Mr. Cushing has been doing the Harvard work for the Globe during the past year and makes the sixth Harvard man on the Globe force, Hills, '80, Burton, '82, and Hooke, Heilbron and Sullivan of '83 being the others. Mr. Wingate, '83, of the Boston Journal, Bolles, L. S., and Fuller, '82, of the Advertiser, Chase, '82, of the Herald, Firman, '82, and Coolidge...