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...Republican," setting forth in concise and attractive form the whole history of the republican party, defending its policy, and giving the reasons which justify its continuance in power. This little book is well worth a careful perusal by both parties, as it is not a mere political squib, but a clear and accurate description of the republican party from its origin down to the present day. It may be had at the Co-operative, Amee's, and Sever's. It is bound attractively in the stars and stripes, and is published by the Query Publishing Co., Hartford, Conn...
...wearisome subjects which have been commented upon in your columns with varying success, there is one in regard to which all efforts would seem to have been unavailing. I allude to the moral so often drawn from the "old, old story" of Town and Gown. According to a little squib which perpetually appears in that weekly publication, the University Calendar, the front seats in Appleton Chapel are always (?) reserved on Sunday evenings for students alone until 7.30, at which hour all vacant seats will be filled by the surplus Cambridge people. How many complaints have been made, whereof the purport...
...Anxious parents and learned faculties look on, the while, half joyfully, half sorrowfully; now with the wild enthusiasm, shouting 'well done, boys, for Alma Mater,' now anxiously scanning the nut-brown players, if may be to discover some lurking bodily ill, some bookish imperfection which the annual newspaper squib alleges must be the sad ending of all such folly. Fortunately for the general welfare, however, these allegations are sensational, being founded on isolated cases of imperfection, and worked up in a few minutes to make copy...
Where all did so well it seems unnecessary to particularize; but the playing of Squib, Foster, and R. Sturgis on the one side, and Lyons and the Union goal-keeper on the other side, deserves honorable mention...
Harvard. - R. Sturgis, '81, Capt., Wright, '81, Foster, '81, Squib, '81, C. I. Sturgis, '83, R. C. Sturgis, '81, Swinburne, '81, Huntingdon, '81, Morse, '81, Thorndike, '81, Weston, '82, and Stetson...