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Word: takings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual game between the Harvard freshmen and the Phillips Exeter Academy will take place next Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/3/1887 | See Source »

Regulations, Section 23: "The blank books required for an examination are to be placed in the hands of the instructor not later than the last exercise in the course before the examination. No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Examinations, 1887. | 6/2/1887 | See Source »

...committee learned there was going to be a "disturbance." Why, bless your "faithful" heart, "James," the Committee would have been deaf, dumb and blind, if the "wars and rumors of wars" all day prevalent had not reached them. Would any other society, similarly threatened, have failed to take measures to protect itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/1/1887 | See Source »

...Surely we have not given our freshmen nine the credit that is its due. Some one who cherishes a petty grudge against Mr. Vila, the captain, suggests that the men in the nine have ceased to pay the slightest regard to training, and positively asserts that they no longer take regular practice but go out in small groups and stand around Jarvis, gossip and look pretty; that the captain goes out only once and awhile, at such times as do not interfere with his social engagements. We would inform this meddler. Why should he question the actions of the nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/1/1887 | See Source »

...attention of the college should be drawn to the Memorial services which are to take place on Monday in Memorial Hall. We published yesterday a programme of the exercises, which will surely be impressive and worthy of the noble cause they are intended to honor. The custom of calling to mind and honoring the sacrifices of those who lost their lives in the recent struggle in this country, needs no excuse. Harvard undergraduates, in the enjoyment of the present, ought not to forget what was done in the past by those who left their college pleasures of the battle-field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/28/1887 | See Source »

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