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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Certain English Authors Considered as Masters of Style (Course for Freshmen). Swift. Professor A. S. Hill. Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calendar. | 3/19/1887 | See Source »

...SATURDAY.Certain English Authors Considered as Masters of Style (Course for Freshmen). Swift. Professor A. S. Hill. Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 3/12/1887 | See Source »

...Coolidge, '87; Loud, 87; Holden, '88; Gallivan, '88; Morgan, '89; Clark, '89; Young, '89; Mumford, '90, and Miller, L. S. Wiestling has played short stop for two years. He is a strong batter, and last season was the best base runner in the college association. He is a swift and accurate thrower, but he is not quite sure on grounders. Coolidge and Lord have played on their class team for three years. Batting has always been their weakest point, but in this they both improved greatly last year. Holden was substitute last year. He is a hard worker, a good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Nine. | 1/26/1887 | See Source »

Last evening the Total Abstinence League was addressed in Sever Hall by Gen. John L. Swift and Col. T, W. Higginson. The meeting was fairly well attended. President Webster introduced the speakers of the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Col. Higginson and Gen. Swift speak on Temperance. | 1/22/1887 | See Source »

...General Swift then spoke for a half an hour in his characteristic pointed manner, interspersing his remarks with numerous anecdotes. He said that there were two schools of temperance, the wet and the dry. He preferred the dry, as did Dickens' young lady on board the vessel in the case of the fifth lover who wouldn't jump overboard to save her, because he was the most practical. In taking a stand against liquor there were too heresies to be met. The personal heresy, where people of high standing used liquor moderately and had it on their sideboards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Col. Higginson and Gen. Swift speak on Temperance. | 1/22/1887 | See Source »

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