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Dates: during 1880-1889
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It was with no ordinary emotions that we read the last Lampoon. Aside from the standing invective against the CRIMSON, there is little that is worthy of commendation. The front page dragon has no reflex fork of remorse on his tail and is far from fierce enough, if we may...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/1/1886 | See Source »

...Potter sustains the Harvard students. He remarks : To those who object to the students' petition that to grant it would be to violate the purposes for which the college was founded, as expressed in the motto on its seal, Christo et Ecclesiae, the petitioners may reply that the oldest college seal, the one nearest the foundation of the college, had the simple but comprehensive motto, Veritas; and in the name of truth, they make their petition. Or, if the incongrous present seal be still held across their request, it would be in order for them to remind the objectors that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OPINION ON THE PRAYER PETITION | 1/27/1886 | See Source »

Miss Florence Kelly, '82, daughter of "Pig Iron" Kelly, of Pa., well remembered as one of the brightest and most strong-minded women who ever attended Cornell, and whose marriage (as reported) to a distinguished Russian Nihilist was announced some months ago is well remembered at Zurich, Switzerland, where she...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/26/1886 | See Source »

The Rev. Mr. Lawrence, of St. Johns Chapel has given his open approval of the prayer petition in very warm terms.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/22/1886 | See Source »

JAMES A. FRYE, Sec'y.PRAYER PETITION. Committee meets at 7.30 this evening, in M. 33.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 1/21/1886 | See Source »

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