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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...benefit concert of the above clubs and the Pierian will be held in Sanders Theatre, Thursday, December 18. Other engagements of the Glee Club are: November 21, at Springfield; December 3, at Newton Centre; December 6, at the B. A. A.; December 11, at Jamaica Plain; December 20, at the Boston Art Club...
...received from the referee; but neither of these circumstances are sufficient to account for the fact that in spite of the fact that the playing time was a quarter of an hour longer, the eleven could not defeat Bowdoin by as large a score as it did Dartmouth. The plain, unvarnished explanation of the score is that the Harvard rush line played a miserable game. Instead of studying the weak points of their opponents, most of the men spent their time in wrestling and singging, exercises at which the visitors were quite as adept as themselves. This was especially true...
...Dudleian lecture this evening marks an epoch in the religious history of Harvard and serves to make plain the tendency of American colleges toward non-sectarianism. We have no doubt that the Puritan founder of the series would be amazed at the prospect of a Roman Catholic delivering a lecture in this course, but now-a-days we feel ourselves able to listen to the words of both creeds, sure that we shall discern the truth. The course has been established many years; it has always attracted renowned men and been followed with great interest...
SEWALL CARROLL BRACKETT, of Jamaica Plain, Mass...
...departments in the University voted to canvass the college this fall, in order to raise as large a subscription as possible among the students themselves, and then, by a circular-letter, to appeal to the Alumni for the rest. In answer to their inquiry, President Eliot replied that "a plain stone building of sufficient size, made fire-proof and lighted by electricity could hardly be built and furnished for less than...