Word: short
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following days at Washington, D. C. After the usual business had been transacted. Professor G. B. Goode, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, read a paper on the "Uses and Limitations of Historical Museums." The meeting was by far the most successful one the association has had during its short life of four years. A very large number of members was present, although, to be sure, New England was very poorly represented, probably owing to Christmas and New Year's festivals. A few days before the meeting the bill incorporating the American Historical Association passed both houses of Congress...
...congratulate the Conference Francaise on the vigor and life it is showing in getting ready for the stage a short comedy by Jules Moineau. In doing this it is following the excellent and successful precedent of last year, when this formerly almost dormant society blossomed forth into one of the most active of literary societies at Harvard. The successful performance of last year gave a great boom to the society, and its immediate result was a large increase in the number of members, all taking a great interest in the welfare and progress of the society. We trust that this...
...Harvard Row, 436 Harvard Street, has the best line of Gents' Furnishing Goods, at the most reasonable prices, in Cambridge, and warrants all goods Best Quality. Genuine English Mackintoshes, American Mackintoshes, Umbrellas, Hamilton's London Trouser Stretcher and all kinds of Athletic Goods. Clothes cleaned, pressed and repaired at short notice...
...large shot. The squad will be through by 5 o'clock. Captain Cumnock will be on the lookout for everyone who can be made available in any way whatever. He has come to the conclusion that it is impossible to bring together a properly trained eleven in so short a time as is left after the opening of college in the autumn-only two months-and he has determined that the candidates for this year's eleven shall begin training at once...
...good-sized audience attended the vesper service at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. The congregation read responsively the 91st Psalm. Dr. Francis G. Peabody offered prayer. The Rev. Theodore C. Williams of New York, preached a short sermon, basing his remarks on the words which Jesus spoke first to the Pharisees and then to his disciples, telling them that it was because. He had opened their eyes and they no longer were blind that there could be no palliation of their sin. Our sins are many or few according to our knowledge of them, and therefore, together with our first higher...