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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Take either A or B, but not both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Association of Western New York. | 1/28/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I would like to take this occasion to thank the management of Memorial Hall for a slight alleviation of the hardships to which the boarders in the hall are exposed. The cause of my gratitude is the improvement in the character of that article which comes to us fourteen times a week, and each time generally weaker, and more ethereal than the last. In short, Memorial Hall soup seems to be improving. Since Sunday we have been favored with a really sensible kind of liquid, one plate of which contains more nutriment than five gallons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1887 | See Source »

...sincerely than I a more ready interchange of thought, a more frequent and perfect contact of professors with students; because the influence of such matured men on our uncrystallized character could not but be good, and also because I think we, the undergraduates, are rather inclined to let matters take their course, do not see fully or fully appreciate the far-reaching fore sight and careful wisdom that is changing Harvard from college to university, and are rather passive, not caring to co-operate very enthusiastically with the faculty. The proposed University Club would do great good by allowing undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/27/1887 | See Source »

...this project were carried out; we cannot see, however, that ice formed by flooding the field would cause any greater damage than the ice that forms there naturally every winter. We express the opinion of a large number of men in college when we say that some organization should take this matter in hand immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/27/1887 | See Source »

...philanthropic gentleman, desirous to further among his younger fellow-countrymen familiarity with Washington's "New-Year Aspiration," has proposed and partially provided for certain Competitive Prize Recitals thereof, to take place in the last week of this year, in each town or city containing prominent literary institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prayer of the Presidents. | 1/27/1887 | See Source »

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