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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...That a return should now be threatened from the present system which those college officers best qualified to judge have pronounced a success, to the old one that has been tried and found wanting; that Harvard should deliberately retrace its steps, and from the university revert to the kindergarten, is a disappointment and a humiliation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Policy. | 2/2/1889 | See Source »

...oldest lawyer living and still pleading at the bar is Mr. Sidney Bartlett, a graduate of Harvard College. He is now past his ninetieth year, and lately argued a case with ability and success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/31/1889 | See Source »

During the past year the Observatory has been very active, and has had particular success in its photometric and photographic work. The President emphasizes the need of a fire-proof building to contain the unpublished records of observations and the library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Reports. | 1/30/1889 | See Source »

...from that school to Harvard. The number of students at Exeter is increasing annually, and while the number of those students choosing other colleges after graduation is in proportion to the increased number, the number who come here is at a stand. Still great stress has been laid to success in athletics drawing men to Yale and Princeton, but the social clubs which the graduates of Exeter had the good sense to form at those colleges exerted a great influence on men who had not quite decided before graduation what college to choose. Steps ought to be taken at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/29/1889 | See Source »

...annual concert in the Hyperion Theatre before an audience that more than filled the house. Members of the freshman class were quite as conspicuous as usual by their demonstrations. To-night occurs the long-talked-of promenade. No pains nor expense have been spared to make it a complete success in every way. But you are in no mood even to hear of promenades till after your dreaded "mid-years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter. | 1/26/1889 | See Source »

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