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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spuyten Duyvil inquest, H. D. Welsh testifies that the brakeman waited until the coming train was in sight before going back to signal it. The engineer testifies that the accident would not have happened had not the brakes been tampered with...
...classes in second-year German have a lecture once a week by Prof. Dippold. The subject is "Schiller," but he has not yet begun upon it. His first class was nearly paralyzed by his asking them to translate "Faust" at sight. Still they did struggle through part of the first scene, much to the surprise of Prof. Dippold, who expected they could do nothing with it. In fact, he did not believe second-year German scholars could understand him at all, but thought he should have to repeat all he said several times, retarding the tempo, and finally translate...
...wing has long been needed, and as we enjoy its conveniences, we congratulate ourselves that it has come in our time. Among other things, one peculiarly "Lasellian" feature is the model kitchen, where our future housekeepers practise weekly the art and mystery of cooking. It is a pleasant sight to watch a group of enthusiastic girls at the work, with rolled-up sleeves and floury fingers, entering so ardently into what will become for so many of them, very soon, a serious part of their life's plan - in view of the inevitable recurrence, three times a day, of something...
...probable that the whole sophomore class at Bowdoin, and possibly the entire college will be summoned as witnesses in the suit, recently brought against eight students for $10,000 each, for damages to a fellow student, whose eye-sight was nearly destroyed by their hazing...
Yesterday afternoon, those who were fortunate enough to be in the gymnasium saw a sight that must have gladdened the heart of every Harvard man. At one side of the main hall, at the chest-weights, were to be seen the 'Varsity Crew, and on the other the 'Varsity Nine. Among the former were seen the familiar faces of Hudgens and Chalfant...