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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...climbed the golden pole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

...quote the words of President Eliot, of dining in "the grandest college-hall in the world." There was one other inducement held out to the men to change the Commons into the Harvard Dining-Hall Association, namely, the moral improvement that would result from constantly sitting under the ridge-pole of the "grandest college-hall in the world." When this prediction was made, very few were ready to believe that even the grandest college-hall could raise the moral tone of the average undergraduate, but our enthusiastic President's expectation seems actually to have been realized. Thus far the greatest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

...unfortunate Mayor became the next object of attention to his ferocious captors; hoisting him by means of a derrick to the top of a lofty telegraph-pole, they compelled him to dance the "Boston Dip" and "New York Glide" along the wires, while singing "Gentle Spring," and whistling "The Flying Trapeze"; in addition to this he was compelled to play the Marseillaise Hymn, on a trombone, and execute Die Wacht am Rhein on a violin, at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REIGN OF TERROR IN BOSTON. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

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