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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...requested to state that as soon as the repairs on the boat-house are finished, no one will be admitted who is not a member of the University Boat Club. Any one wishing to join the club can do so by calling at 30 Thayer. Old members can obtain keys at the same place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

...Dartmouth complains that "the College" declines to pay any part of the expenses of the crew. It is perhaps necessary to state that "the College" seems to mean the students, and not the governing body of the institution. Additional point is given to the complaint by the fact that the College recently voted to pay a considerable sum for the purpose at once, and that nevertheless money does not pour into the treasury with increased rapidity. The students of Dartmouth evidently imagine that the word of the ordinary college student is as good as gold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

...sufficient to remark that the common notion that America was once a populous and powerful country, but that in the twentieth century there commenced a reduction of temperature and a southward movement of ice from the northern coast, which finally brought the land to its present barren state, is essentially correct. This article is confined to Harvard, for from documents it appears that this was the name of the place, and not Arvart, as tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STORY OF HARVARD. | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

...lower classes, indeed! And, pray, who are the lower classes? Are they those whose hardy forms, made strong and firm by the noble labor for which the body of man was made, support the great fabric of the state, which the puny Sybarite would helplessly allow to fall asunder? Are they those whose active minds, unsullied by the thoughts and traditions, which the Old World has left behind as eternal monuments of its infamy, find in themselves the germs of truth, disregard the plaints of the timorous observer of the past, and proudly direct the course of the ship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LOWER CLASSES. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

...mind of the tyrant-ridden European, perceives the truth and will not wait to hear it disputed. In them is found that noble energy which advances the cause of truth when truth is once perceived, which turns a deaf ear to the sophistical arguments of unprincipled supporters of a state of things which the progress of the modern world has at last made unendurable, and which, having attained one great end, does not rest satisfied, but rushes forward and pushes on to the next. It is to them that we owe the declaration of the great truth that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LOWER CLASSES. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

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