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Dates: during 1880-1889
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A petition was circulated by the students of Tufts College, asking that Monday, the 21st, be given in addition to Tuesday, a regular holiday. We at Harvard would be happy if we could persuade the faculty to grant us Tuesday alone.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/22/1887 | See Source »

A crowded chapel awaited the service in Appleton Chapel last evening, at which Prof. Harris, - whose name has been brought prominently forward in the recent Andover trial, - was to preach. The service opened with a short prayer, which was followed by the reading of the Seventy-second Psalm. The long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Harris of Andover in Appleton Chapel. | 2/21/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I see by a recent issue of the CRIMSON that you advocate the card system in the dormitories, by which a stranger entering a building for the first time is enabled to find a friend without the least difficulty. We all know the trouble and vexation which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DORMITORY CARD DIRECTORIES. | 2/3/1887 | See Source »

The sophomore class of Rutgers College has presented to the faculty a petition for a sophomore exhibition. This is decidedly an evidence of increasing devotion to study on the part of the students. The sophomore exhibitions, at which members of the class contested publicly for a prize in oratory, were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/2/1887 | See Source »

Jonas G. Clark, one of the wealthiest men in central Massachusetts, has signified his intention to found and endow a university in this city, which ambitious scheme shall not fall behind Yale or Harvard. It has been hinted about town for several weeks that Mr. Clark had in contemplation some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New University. | 1/19/1887 | See Source »

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