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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little immature, were it published would prove of value as well as of interest both to the college at large and to the public. The publication of such a quarterly as that just started at Princeton, though no easy task, would be another justification of Harvard's password, "progress...
...five o'clock on Friday last the Glee Club went to Lowell. After supper at the Merrimac House, the club went to Huntington Hall where a fair was in progress for the benefit of the Old Ladies' Home of Lowell. The club sang at intervals during the evening. In spite of the fact that it was the first concert of the year and that there was a constant buzz of conversation in the booths where the sale of fancy articles was going on, the singing was excellent. After the concert, there was dancing until late in the evening. The Yorick...
...candidates for the Mott Haven team to the best advantage. The special contests to which we refer were held Thursday evenings last year, and contributed in no small degree to the success of the Mott Haven team last spring. Prizes should be offered to the men showing the most progress in each of the different events during the successive trials. In this way more candidates will be brought out than if a prize were offered to the man making the best record, for against one or two old members of the Mott Haven team, the new candidates would have...
...University has been extremely fortunate in securing, to fill Prof. Auderson's place, Dr. David J. Hill, late president of Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. He brings with him a brilliant reputation, and an energy which will give a new impetus to Rochester's progress. He is a profound student, a trained and skilful administrator and an author of text-books which have been adopted by some of the leading universities of the country...
General Armstrong then described the work at his school, and showed how much both Negroes and Indians had improved in the last twenty years. The whites of the South have been intimidated into education by the progress of the blacks. The state of Mississippi is doing more for the instruction of the Negroes than is done by Massachusetts. The great trouble, however, is the lack of teachers...