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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee was chosen to take charge of the affair. The dinner will be held next week, and a book for signatures will be placed at Leavitt's immediately-Men must sign at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dinner to the Eleven. | 11/26/1889 | See Source »

...students of Syracuse University have refused to attend recitations owing to the expulsion of the leader in a hazing affair last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/21/1889 | See Source »

...profitably treated. The unfortunate freshman ball game at New Haven has already been thoroughly discussed, and it is hard to understand what is to be gained by a mere rehearsal of the very uninteresting story again. We should think that the college would want to forget the whole unfortunate affair as soon as possible. And as for the alleged apathy of the class in supporting its crew, it would seem that this lack of support is the result of ignorance of the financial condition of the management rather than of any niggardly disposition on the part of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 6/12/1889 | See Source »

...pole. If there was any discourtesy shown it must have been by the one who made so embarrassing a request. Leavitt and Shearman are good friends and all Harvard athletes are surprised that anything ever has been said about the matter at all, and doubly surprised that the affair should have been so misrepresented, especially after Shearman had actually used Leavitt's pole. There is a disposition to regard the whole thing as having its origin in the oriental imagination of some New York reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Truth about the Pole Vault Matter. | 6/5/1889 | See Source »

...Birthday" will be read at the Browning club which holds its meetings at Hotel Brunswick. Col. T. W. Higginson will read the lines of Ganceline, and Mr. J. J. Hayes the part of Valence. The other parts will be read by well-known students of the poet and the affair will doubtless be an intellectual feast to members of the club. The meeting on Tuesday will close the year's work of the society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/20/1889 | See Source »

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