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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...race finished the autumn season of the Harvard Bicycle Club. Last year the club could hardly be said to exist outsides of its officers, and gave no evidence of life except two hare and hounds races and a race meeting at Beacon Park. But at the beginning of the term it was resolved to make an effort to put the bicycle club on its legs again, and under the new board of officers the effort has succeeded beyond expectation. The first run was to Lexington, where the club had an informal dinner and returned by moonlight. Twenty-three members took...
...students last spring for his anti-German speech in the Diet, met with the same fate today in the splendid building on the Ringstrasse, which the University has just taken possession of. In the course of his inaugural lecture he referred to the "unpleasant events" of last term, whereupon some hundreds of the students burst out as before into cries of "Pereat" and cheers for their "German" Professors. About 300 of them then rose and left the room, but when Dr. Maassen ordered the doors to be closed they returned and forced them open. Fegular fighting then began between those...
...appears to have dawned Under the liberal rule of Professor Jowett, the Oxford students are now attacking such plays as "The Merchant of Venice," and the "Vic" Theatre, well known to old Oxonians as the scene of many a friot and unlimited uproar, is again reopened in term-time and the "Shakesperian and English Comedy Company" is now giving English plays in it. The company has been organized by Mr. F. Benson, who made a reputation a few years ago as Clytemnestra in the "Agamemnon...
...steward at Memorial should be congratulated upon the success of the hall since the beginning of the present term. From time to time favorable comments have been made concerning the board, service, and general management of the dining room. The real success of the hall, however, depends on the price of board. If this is raised beyond a certain sum many men are obliged to leave, their example is followed by others, and in time a stampede occurs such as nearly proved ruinous to the hall last year...
...Birds of Aristophanes" will be given this term at Cambridge university...