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...interest your readers to know more. It was composed by Jabez Allen of Stoneham. This Allen was a hard character generally, who took a particular delight in pulling down the dam which flowed Spot Pond meadows, owned by one Timothy Sprague. On one occasion while he was at his usual sport, Sprague saw him, and ordered him to desist, whereupon he wounded Sprague with a charge of buckshot. Either for this or for some other escapade, he was sentenced to sit for several hours upon the gallows, of course at the county jail in Cambridge; and he occupied his time...
After a much greater delay than usual on account of the affairs attendant upon the Celebration, the University catalogue for 1886 has at last appeared and is on sale to-day. It is much the same in form as last year, and it continues the new crimson covers. The principal change to note is that in the requirements for admission. The new system, the details of which have been described in our columns before, is inaugurated this year. The old prescribed and elective subjects are replaced by elementary and advanced subjects. The elementary studies are not supposed to be equivalent...
...above is a short play interspersed with a number of songs and hymns for the celebration of Christmastide. It is the usual tale of good children at Grandpapa's for Christmas, who in the midst of their pleasure disvover the usual poor family in suffering, and finally bring the needed dinner to the poor widow, send off the rent collector, Mr. Pennygrip, and then of course enjoy their holiday far more than they would have otherwise. There is a certain want of freshness in the piece, which is its most striking feature, and so much moral that little benefit...
...brightest sketches that has appeared in the Advocate for a long time. A more clever description of the scenes at the theatre, or a more acute and amusing delineation of the people in the audience, it would be hard to find. The verse is up to the usual standard in this number...
...dancing in Memorial after the concert attracted the usual number of concert-goers. The entire hall, therefore, was cleared for the occasion...