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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Friday's Transcript contains a highly appreciative criticism a column long on the window of the class of 1860, recently placed in Memorial Hall. The writer says: "Much has been done during the last few years to embellish Harvard University, both by private endowment and by co-operation among the classes which have graduated from the college. The Sanders Theatre, the Hemenway Gymnasium and the Memorial Hall, are all objects of interest to the visitor who is "doing" Cambridge. During the past summer an interesting feature has been added to Memorial Hall. The lack of interest in this shown...
...fire in Providence, R. I., yesterday a number of operatives jumped from a fourth-story window. Four were killed and seventeen injured...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: It is with considerable surprise and amusement that we discover the date "410 B. C." above the figure of Leonidas in the new window of the class of 1858, recently placed in Memorial Hall. Taking as an analogy the date 1643 A. D. above the companion figure Hampden, which marks the year of his death, we may suppose that the date above Leonidas is intended likewise to denote the year of that hero's death. But, according to general accounts, the battle of Thermopylae, with which the name of Leonidas is usually associated, was fought...
...that it was gone. I looked vainly over all parts of the building in the hope that some one might have carelessly moved it from its place. It could not be found in the building, and I was about to leave when I cast my eyes through the north window, and, strange to say, there I saw my net stretched across another man's court. At first I concluded that the "borrowers" must be some innocent freshmen, who doubtless supposed that the nets were public property, furnished by the college authorities for the general use of the students...
...Yale College the other morning, while Professor Barbour was writing in his room in North College, a pistol ball entered the window, whizzed by the doctor's head, and struck a Hebrew Bible on the shelves opposite him. The ball was carelessly fired by some students who were pursuing an escaped squirrel across the college campus...