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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Church sixty-three pence, in memory of sixty-three "innocent scholars," barbarously murdered by the townsmen in the reign of Edward Third. Compare this with the state of things existing here. Here, every year, as many "innocent scholars" meet their fate at the hands of the designers of the town,-falling unhappy victims to the charms of the young ladies of the place. And do the maidens of this burgh ever offer up a penny to the memory of their slain? No, never! Yet how appropriate would the custom be! How interesting to see Miss Sangbleu of Old Cambridge come...
Camplaint is made in the Amherst Student that it costs as much to play billiards in the Gymnaseum as in any of the billiard saloons of the town. The following pathetic cry is raised. "If our spiritual guardians would bring the wandering sinner, who at present revels in the wickedness of the hotel billiard room, back to the fold of the new Gym., the most effectual way in which they can do it is by appealing to the financial interests of the above mentioned wanderer...
...hard blows. given and received. Given and received they were, in that consulship of Plancus which every man loves to talk of, with great equanimity and no complaint. It seems now. however, that this too, with so many other things, has been changed at Eton. Walking through the town the other day an old Etonian, who had known Plancus, observed in a shopwindow certain leg-guards, not unlike those worn by cricketers, but lighter and less hampering to the limbs. As was the case with Nell Cook on a certain memorable occasion, "fully filled his eyes," and he walked into...
Oberlin students celebrating the supposed republican victory serenaded a doctor in the town with horns and tin pans. That gentleman responded with a volley of pistol bullets wounding one of the students...
Tuesday evening, the Chelsea Republicans enjoyed the services of the band in a parade in that classic town. The procession was a great success, notwithstanding the mud and wet weather. The band, it is perhaps needless to say, kept to its usual high standard of merit, and met with the universal approval of muckerdom, which was extremely well represented along the route. The beet part of this parade is generally considered to be the supper, which a member, living in Chelsea, kindly provided for the band. It is rumored that there were several young ladies present at the party...