Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Englishmen are becoming alarmed by a report that Oscar Wilde will appear as a star in the provincial theatres...
...numerous societies formed for the protection of such as he. We will say nothing of the rumor that this animal, together with his companion in arms of apparently similar age, is a resurrected "subject" from the veterinary department of the college. Evenless deserving of credence is the report that these two worthies are bargains secured long ago from the veteran corps of the Cambridge Street Railway Company. Ourselves, we incline to the theory that both were a part of the original foundation of the college and as such under the terms of the bequest have become inalienable parts...
...Advocate's latest attempt at a joke in the Item column is painful. The report, however, that half the subscription will be returned as an atonement, is wholly without foundation...
...students of Davidson "College," Charlotte, N. C., have if correctly reported, recently been indulging in some very curious freaks. We doubt if even Southern "chivalry" can explain these actions. The report reads: Students at Davidson College have of late been so riotous as to attract general attention. They take possession of Davidson College station as the trains stop, go through the cars singing ribald songs regardless of the presence of ladies, and parade the country round about so that women are afraid to be found abroad. This hostility seems to be especially directed against preachers, whom they compel...
...present below the most important parts of the report made to President Eliot on the boat house accident by Mr. F. B. Knapp, superintendent of buildings...