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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mild, inoffensive-looking person of about twenty-six summers, attired in a neat blue suit, and at the first glance would have been taken for one of those harmless young men of gentlemanly pursuits, and no visible means of support, whom one so often notices in our "Modern Athens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL THINGS ARE NOT, ETC. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...after it than it now recognizes Christmas by having a vacation at that time. Not to mention the different character of the two days, there is surely some difference between leaving a vacation where it is, because, on the whole, it is the best time, and changing it to suit the convenience of those students who belong to a particular sect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...Constitution of the Athletic Association have completed their work, and will have copies of it for sale next week. The difficulty of drawing up such a Constitution has been great, and there has been no one source from which rules could be taken, without modifying them so as to suit the requirements of college athletes. It will be seen that the Constitution provides for a large number of events which have never been introduced at Harvard, but the Committee deemed it advisable to include rules to govern all really good sports, thinking that such rules may be of service before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

EVERY now and then some one of our "esteemed" contemporaries inveighs against the appreciative but unconscientious student who borrows the papers from the reading-room. The men at Dartmouth, however, are not quite so wicked as that: they content themselves with cutting out whatever happens to suit their taste, and the rest they leave generously to those who may come after. Moreover, "these persons are the very ones who leave their subscriptions to the Dartmouth unpublished," as that righteously indignant journal informs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

...homme qui suit son desir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM THE FRENCH. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

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