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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...voices than are usually to be found in a college burlesque. Where all are so good, it is difficult to discriminate, but mention should be made of the excellent training and steadiness of the choruses, of the good-taste and general correctness of the stage management, and of the superior manner in which the music was conducted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Constance; " | 4/21/1888 | See Source »

With the exception of Harvard, no university in America offers more advantages in fellowships and scholarships than Yale; and those at Yale, though far less in number than those at Harvard, are yet, on an average, superior in value and in time of incumbency. The first in point of age is the Douglass Fellowship founded by Mrs. Samuel Miller in memory of her brothers,who were both Yale graduates. This fellowship, wiht a yearly income of $600, may be held for three years. The Soldiers' Memorial Fellowship yields also an income of $600, but it is more valuable than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fellowships at Yale. | 4/13/1888 | See Source »

...later period Shakspere was drawn away from the beautiful boy by a new passion which roused the baser part of his nature. Conscious of his own degradation, he realized that, to attain a true immortality, life must be identified with conditions superior to mortality. Of the various kinds of immortality mentioned by the poet only the one which he thought most doubtful, namely his own reputation, still endures. We have no evidence that his friend had a son, and the sonnets have not preserved for us his name or even his appearance. The words "Time will come and take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Palmer's Lecture. | 3/21/1888 | See Source »

CUSTOM WORK AND REPAIRING in all its branches; superior workmanship guaranteed, by James W. Brine's, 10 and 11 Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 3/9/1888 | See Source »

REDUCED PRICES in Picture Frames after March 1st, 1888. Superior in quality and yet as low in price as many other dealers; and pictures, etc., framed at short notice. Please call and be convinced. ALFRED MORGAN, Hilton's Block, Harvard square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 3/9/1888 | See Source »

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