Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...formality of examination; the rigorous mid-term and final lests being relied upon to keep the scasses weeded. It is another singular feature of the regime that, save the long summer intermission, there is no vacation, nor a single holiday with the exception of Christmas. Thanksgiving, New year's, Washington's birthday are simply the last Thursday in November, January 1, and February 22, to the stern calendar in vogue here, and Saturday shines not as a holiday. Even the founder's day of certain Northern colleges is denied the plodding student. One would say that he ought...
Yale must have a remarkable Glee Club this year. at their concert in Meriden, the News states that "Fatinitza" was received "with thunders of applause," while "George Washington" was rendered so ably that "the audience fairly went to pieces...
...maps procured from Washington for the use of the students in History 13 have arrived and may be obtained of the committee at the rate of six for ten cents...
...number of members of the new Harvard Club of Washington, which is about to be organized, is thirty Among the recent graduates are Mr. J. S. Webb, '82, and Mr. F. H. Allen, '78, for several years coxswain of the University crew...
...graduates of Harvard who reside in Washington are to form a Harvard Club. Hon. Geo. Bancroft, '17, the historian, will be the first president...