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Dates: during 1880-1889
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14The sale of Japanese bamboo curtains and portieres in beautifully worked designs and curios in vases, swords. Laquer and china goods, opening this week offers the students of Harvard a rare chance to obtain these very desirable goods at one half the usual price, at student emporium, 30 Boylston St., Lee L. Powers, Manager...
...curious incident has been recalled which may be of interest to many. Several years ago a discussion arose between the university and a college located farther west as to the prior claim to the color which distinguished Harvard, and which was then called magenta. Of course the usual amount of college newspaper squabbling ensued, and for a time it was impossible to settle the dispute amicably. The western college at last declared most solemnly and officially that magenta had been selected by them as a college color in 1857, when the whole controversy collapsed at the reply of Harvard that...
...sale of Japanese bamboo curtains and portieres in beautifully worked designs and curios in vases, swords. Laquer and china goods, opening this week offers the students of Harvard a rare chance to obtain these very desirable goods at one half the usual price, at student emporium, 30 Boylston St., Lee L. Powers, Manager...
...which have come upon us, and seek to instill some good precepts in the minds of those not morituros, but about to try examinations. In the words of a recent ethical pamphlet, "don't" stay up all night cramming just before an examination. Go to bed earlier than usual whether you know anything or not. It is better to know less and be able to express it in the blue book than to know more, and be too muddled and tired to remember it. This working until breakfast with a wet towel around your head is very romantic when...
...Atlantic Monthly for February continues a continuation of the joint story by Mrs. Oliphant and Mr. Aldrich. Whittier presents a pleasing poem, "A Day." Crawford continues Paul Platoff and John Fiske with his usual clearness offers an admirable paper on "The Federal Convention." The most notable paper, however, is the long expected poem by James Russell Lowell, "Credidimus Jovem Regnare." Among other papers are "Two Serious Books" by Harriet Waters Preston. "A Bird of Affairs" by Olive Thorne Miller and the first part of a story, "The Lady from Maine," by Lawrence Saxe. Mr. Winter and Mr. Langdon and Susan...