Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Springfield Republican of Monday contains an article on the Harvard Law School, full of interest for present and past members of that school, and especially valuable as a "pointer" for all who intend to enter the legal profession...
...Holiday Idlesse," a volume of verses by J. H. West of Tufts College, has been recently issued, and is described by the Springfield Republican as "young and collegy...
...Boston correspondent of the Springfield Republican has been discussing the prospects of an elevated railway in Boston: "It is the prevailing opinion that the route from Brighton through Cambridge to Boston is the most feasible for an experiment, as the travel is heavy, horse-car accommodations poorer than elsewhere, and the injury to real estate less than over any other route yet talked of. Of course the most politic plan is to run the elevated road up to Boston and then endeavor to get it inside the limits. As long as the horsecar service in the city is as good...
...Springfield Republican passes bitter judgment upon Life, which it says was started by "graduates of the Harvard Lampoon." "The Lampoon was smart, for college boys, but Life is not smart at all, and has no good reason for being," is its stern decree...
...offense because the women were offended, threatening to leave if any more "females" were admitted to the college. The faculty, after an investigation which is not made public, have yielded to the rebellious boys and promised to shut out women from the institution's privileges. Commenting on this, the Springfield Republican says: "Such a course is weak and censurable. The offending professor might have been discharged if he was guilty of indecency, or the young women might have been allowed to depart if they were prurient; but to issue a wholesale order against womankind is a mean retreat before...