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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Over six thousand people were present at the Harvard-U. of Penn. game yesterday...
...thousand dollars for a gateway at Harvard": and the yard in darkness, the library in darkness, and hundreds of men forced to board away from the college yard because of a lack of dormitories. The members of the university are, indeed, grateful for any improvement of the university property, even if that improvement be the gilding of the Gore Hall steeples. But this is a practical age. It is true that "we cannot live by bread alone," but bread is quite necessary. If money is to be left to the university, why cannot some benefactor not gain immortality for himself...
...service of the evening? Those who attended it must relate a repetition of the glorious music of the morning enhanced by the excellent quartette of the four graduate voices. But still more, who shall speak of the beauties and magnificence of the grand sermon by Rev. Phillips Brooks? Two thousand listeners must try to answer; we cannot...
There was a goodly array of umbrellas on Jarvis Field, yesterday afternoon, about a thousand people being present, including many ladies. There was little wind, but the rain came down pretty steadily all through the game, making the ground and the ball hopelessly slippery. Harvard had the west end of the field and the kick off. Woodman led off with a run which did not last very long and Faulkner followed it with another, but the ball was lost to Wesleyan. Wesleyan kicked the ball up the field into Sears' hands. A long pass gave Porter a chance...
...FIFTY-FIRST thousand of "Students' Songs." the book compiled by Wm. H. Hill's. (Harvard, 1880), and published by Moses King, (Harvard, 1881) har just been issued. "Students' Songs" has had the largest sale of any book of this kind ever published...