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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...When, as usual, students made application at the railroad offices last June for reduced tickets they were told that the companies had decided to make no concessions. The facts of the case were that all roads running out of Boston (for the West, at least,) had made a combination whose object was to prevent "cut" rates. Several students took the trouble to write to New York to the railroad headquarters asking for reduced terms to clubs. By return mail they received a large bundle of hand-bills and time-cards, setting forth the merits of the various roads, but their...
...past few years, there have been men in college whose connections with the railroads were of such a nature as to enable them to secure for themselves and their friends a reduction from the regular rates. But this has not always been the case : nor have the advantages of the reduction been extended to all members of the university...
...regularly organized "Department of Political Science," yet the advantages she offers for the study of politics and political history are unsurpassed by those of any other American college. The courses offered at Harvard in Constitutional History and Political Economy form the best possible training for young men whose aspirations are toward legal or political honors...
Professor Van Benschoten of Wesleyan University were added to the committee, making the total number fourteen. The chairman reported that he had received favorable letters from Dartmouth and the University of Virginia, and had reason to expect equally encouraging replies from Cornell, Union and the University of California, by whose acquisition a total sum of $3500 would be pledged for the annual expenses of the school for ten successive years. It was also reported that the good offices of the United States government had been obtained, and that the director would be made an attache of the bureau of education...
...Boston Gazette says: "A most amusing treat was afforded to those whose good fortune it was to be driving in the neighborhood of Cambridge on Thursday afternoon. Any one not knowing that Harvard students indulge among their other eccentricities in the game of 'Hare and Hounds,' might have supposed the Somerville Asylum or the School for Feeble-Minded Youth had let their young inmates out for an airing. 'Up hill and down dale,' 'in and out and round about' they went, while at intervals might be heard the inspiring sound, 'Tally Ho,' 'Tally Ho,' which to the initiated meant that...