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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Barrett Wendell's comedy, "The Pilgrim Sons," will be played on the evenings of January 20 and 21 by the Footlight Club at Jamaica Plain...
...Banjo Club have four engagements for the next three weeks. January 13 they go to Quincy with the Glee Club; Jan. 16, to Rockland; Jan. 21, to Jamaica Plain, at the performance of the Foot-light Club; February 1st, to Sharon...
...team of undergraduates is going to going to play a game of hockey with a Jamaica Plain eleven to-day at 2.30 on Jamaica Pond...
This is the season for our annual complaint about the shortness of the Christmas vacation. It seems extraordinary that the faculty should not yet have opened their eyes to the plain fact that they gain nothing and that the students lose nothing by cutting down the vacation to such very narrow limits. The attendance in the courses during the week before and the week after vacation might seem to be a sufficient proof of how little regard is had by the men for the actual dates of the Christmas recess. But it seems that the faculty gets a grim satisfaction...
...allowed to begin at the end of the junior year; in Ann Arbor at the end of the sophomore year. Harvard has deliberately converted her entire curriculum into elective courses arranged in proper sequence for certain departments. Whatever may become of the old baccalaureate degree, it is perfectly plain that the older and better American colleges are evolving into universities. Whether the old-fashioned A. B. will give way to the masters and doctors degree, or be conferred at an earlier period in the University course or be given as a graduate certificate by first-class gymnasia, like Phillips Exeter...