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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Congress should pass further acts in order to stop the technical evasion of the present law: Finance Rept., pp, 365-370 passim; Boston Herald, cited above...
...extremely probable that President Barnard of Columbia College will soon be compelled to resign office owing to continued ill health. President Barnard is now seventy-nine years old and has held his present position for over twenty years. Since the beginning of this college year he has only been able to attend two faculty meetings, and has passed the winter months in Florida in the expectation of recuperating enough to be enabled to attend his college duties during the spring term. The only reason that can be given for President Barnard's clinging so tenaciously to leadership of Columbia...
...lack of space, a report of the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Exonian, of the Phillips Exeter Academy has not been given before in these columns. On Saturday evening all past editors, who live within a convenient distance of Boston, together with the members of the present board, assembled at a dinner given at Parker's. The affair was eminently successful and many schemes were advanced for furthering the best interests of the periodical. It was suggested that the paper be next year enlarged and published semi-weekly; and it is more than probable that this suggestion will...
...KEYES, Manager.There will be an important meeting of the Harvard Union in Holden Chapel this evening at 7 p. m. sharp. Every member is urged to be present...
Dustan and Smith are the only new men. The crew is rowing the present University stroke. They get a good firm catch, but fail to carry their oars through with an even pressure. Their body work on the whole is very good; but some of the men are short in their forward reach and almost all of them go back too far at the finish. The back work is ragged. The time is bad. The men are very strong, but they do not get in their work together. Mr. R. C. Watson and Mr. Harry Keyes have been out with...