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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Glee Club has accepted an invitation from the Harvard Club of Fall River to sing in that town in the latter part of April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/5/1888 | See Source »

...Glee Club gave a concert in the Town Hall at Watertown, Wednesday evening, before a large and enthusiastic audience. After the concert the members of the club were entertained at the house of Mr. Coolidge at Mount Auburn. The club returned to Cambridge at midnight and sang a few songs in the yard before dispersing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/2/1888 | See Source »

...poem was rapturously applauded, and, though brief, received as much praise as given to any during the evening. The Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale read two selections from "Mr. Ingram's Double"- the Double's success at Governor Gorgeous' Ball, and the ruinous consequences of the imposture at the town meeting. Dr. Hale's reading lent an additional interest to this charming bit of comedy. Mr. William Winter moved the audience deeply when he read with much feeling "Lines Written a Few Days After Longfellow's Death." Mr. J. T. Trowbridge, of Arlington, portrayed the pathetic trials of a young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Authors' Reading. | 2/28/1888 | See Source »

...Chapel" is a bit of verse fairly well translated from the German of Uhland. The article that follows, "The Land of the Lotus-Eater," is a description of a town in the West Indies. The subject is interesting and well-treated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Advocate. | 2/28/1888 | See Source »

...students of Harvard University, who are being educated here right beside the very tree under which Washington first took command of the armies fighting for "Liberty or Death," are not allowed a holiday on the anniversary of his birth. Was it not within a few miles of this town that the first shots were fired which meant that the colonies of America were to be free and independent? Are we not within sight of the monument erected over the spot where brave men fought and fell at Bunker Hill? If this is Harvard conservatism, fit upon it! Where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/22/1888 | See Source »

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