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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This badinage went on for some time. Judge Hoar laughed. Mr. Dana looked grave, and at last said: "This is well for a jest, but don't say it aloud! Don't! A loud word in the Alps sometimes starts the avalanche...
...supplement him, he has been made the sole instructor. The best part of his system is similar to principles of voice culture heretofore confined wholly to teachers of vocal music. He seeks by simple exercises to give a free movement to the diaphragm, and to insure that every word is supported from that depth; the chest to be resonant and full, with a supple readiness and activity at the lips. The instruction is wholly by classes, and not, as has heretofore been the case with upper-class men, by fifteen minute appointments...
WILLIAMSTOWN, Nov. 7, 1882. - Still another secret society! Will wonders never cease? This time it is not some presumptuous fraternity which has disturbed the serenity of the college by establishing a chapter here; but a local junior society has sprung itself upon us without a word of warning. Great mystery surrounds the organization so that not even its name is known. Eight juniors display the octagonal silver badge, and rumor has it that there are as many more sub rosa members among the sophomores. All similar attempts in the past at establishing class societies have proved failures...
...ability the right of all members of the faculty to seats in the governing board, while the legal members of the corporation and overseers maintained that representation could not be claimed as a right, either from the terms of the charter or from the history and use of the word 'fellow.' This position was taken by Judges Story and Jackson, and Chief-Justice Parker and others. The decision was in accordance with the latter view. Owing to questions of reorganization at the time, which occasioned diverse opinions, the application of the faculty for the election of one of their number...
...course was from the bridge below the boat house to Richardson's coal wharf, a distance of about one-quarter of a mile. Bryant's crew took the inside position, with Hammond and Burch in the middle and Storrow on the outside. At the word "go," all four of the crews got away well together, and came up all in a bunch. When the lower end of the float in front of the boat house was reached, Storrow had a lead of not more than six feet over Hammond, with Burch and Bryant well up to the leaders. Before...