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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students, who formed groups around the workmen until the bronze figure was finally lowered into place. The base is very simple, being nearly a cube in shape, but tapering slightly, so that the top is smaller than the bottom. On the front is the simple inscription cut into the stone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Placing the Harvard Statue. | 10/11/1884 | See Source »

...only thought is to brace the freshmen to renewed efforts in the hope that the series will be finished with the favorable balance on their side. But to do this there is need of the hardest work on the part of the freshmen which they have ever done. No stone should be left unturned which can aid them in putting themselves into the field the next time in perfect condition. They cannot deserve the support of the college and a large attendance at their game on Jarvis Field unless they do everything to assure the college that if they loose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 6/4/1884 | See Source »

...stone posts of the yard along Harvard street were lighted. The scene was an extremely fantastic and beautiful one. The crowded streets and the brilliant lights must have pleased the nine as they drove along the street in the midst of the procession. Continuous cheers went up from men standing in the street until the barges drew up in front of Bartlett's. There the band played "Yale Men Say," and the crowd joined in singing the popular air. Soon a huge procession, consisting of almost all the men in college, and headed by the brass band, marched around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CELEBRATION. | 5/21/1884 | See Source »

...long stone walk in the yard shows the effect of last Saturday's bonfire, one of the flag-stones being cracked and shattered by the heat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/20/1884 | See Source »

President White, of Cornell, has long been recognized as one of the foremost educators in this country. In an address, delivered some few days ago at the lying of the corner stone of a student society hall, he took occasion to make some statements, which, on that account, deserve attention. "The problem of housing students." he says especially in American universities, has long been a serious one. To coop them up in large dormitories or barracks, with possibly a tutor or young professor to act as policeman over them, has always been a fruitful cause of disorder. So fully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/15/1884 | See Source »

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