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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...down was that every undergraduate must wear a black coat on Sundays. Disobedience to this law incurred nearly the same punishment as drunkenness or any of the other capital crimes. The narrator remembers a circumstance in connection with the rule which is worth repeating. One of his friends, a quiet and studious young man, not knowing the regulation, had provided himself before entering college with a Sunday suit of some dark material. He had not been long here before he was summoned before a member of the faculty and his attention called to edict of the Bible. Being in straitened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reminiscences. | 3/11/1886 | See Source »

Many students on their way to Fresh Pond to enjoy the bracing effect of a quiet afternoon's skate have doubtless noticed along Lake View Avenue a large, square, brick building, with massive granite columns in front. This structure, known as the Cambridge Water Works, was commenced in 1872, completed a year later, and together with the machinery, boilers, and a long narrow extension in the rear, cost the city about $2,000,000. A subterannean conduit runs from the build to Fresh Pond, through which the water flows and fills three deep stone wells in the cellar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cambridge Water Supply. | 2/10/1886 | See Source »

...instance, have brought success to Mr. Pear, the soapman, or Mr. Redfern, the clothesman, or any of the other eminent advertisers who sell their wares in foreign markets. The college, however, is not entirely without resources. It can keep itself before the eye of the student public in a quiet, though not ineffective way. Last year, for example, the Ecole Politique of Paris, had one of its circulars posted for some months in the entry of University Hall; and the circular undoubtedly had some influence upon the four or five Harvard men who are at present studying in that school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/8/1886 | See Source »

...room every morning by their loud discussions on athletics and recitations. We have often remarked on the selfishness of such conduct which is all the more inexcusable as the reading-room is to many men the only place in college where they are able to secure anything like absolute quiet. To such men, noise and laughter in such a place are a great annoyance and a very serious one. We beg all men who are thoughtless enough to disturb their mates in this way, to be considerate in the future. We would also advise the Library authorities to provide chairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1885 | See Source »

...quiet afternoon, with just enough of coolness in the air to make a warm gun barrel acceptable to the fingers, attracted a dozen marksmen to the Watertown grounds on Wednesday. The changes made in the arrangement of the shooting shanty and the trap pits have greatly improved the grounds, and the men present seemed well pleased with the accommodations. The first match contested was at 10 clay birds, 18 yards rise, thrown from five angles. The scores were as follows: W. H. Slocum, 9; F. S. Palmer, 8; M. H. Clyde, 6; F. S. Mead, 5. On the conclusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Shotgun. | 10/30/1885 | See Source »

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