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...born on the twenty-ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and of the independence of the United States the eightieth. The interesting event occurred in Boston. A pewter mug, richly embossed in tin, was given me by my uncle...
...team than at present; and there would be no use for a light, agile player, as, on account of the small team, it would be absolutely necessary to pick men for their ability to stop a rusher. A slip on a muddy spot at a critical moment, or a thousand other accidents, would be far more influential in determining the result of a game than they are at present, and therefore the skill on either side would not be fairly tried. The writer would probably discover by a trial that eleven men are barely sufficient to cover a field...
...SCUDDER'S "Catalogue of Scientific Works" is now completed, and has been published by the Directors of the College Library. The entries in the Catalogue represent over seventy thousand volumes...
...should like to inform the Watchman: 1st, that the students of Harvard College have not formed a considerable part of the audiences at the performances of the "Black Crook," as will readily be seen from the fact that it would require great effort on the part of one thousand students to form a "considerable part of the audience," for two weeks, in a theatre that holds about twenty-five hundred persons; 2d, that the basis of fact, which the writer's imagination has distorted into the above statement, is that about one hundred Freshmen attended the "Black Crook...
...nature and purpose of this book are very well indicated by the full title, which runs as follows: "A Tight Squeeze; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, who on a wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money, as a professional tramp." It is a very ingenious and entertaining bit of work, full of characteristic humor, and at the same time containing much valuable information concerning tramp life, which, if true, points to the solution of many a problem of social science. At the same time there is woven...