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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Cooke, having met with a slight accident, was unable to give his lecture on "The Two Sicilles," with which he was to have completed his course on Italian cities, last evening. In order not to disappoint the audience, Dr. O. W. Huntington Kindly consented to show the views which Professor Cooke had collected in Southern Italy and Sicily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Cooke's Lecture. | 2/15/1889 | See Source »

...second eleven went to Andover yesterday to play the Phillips Academy team. On account of the disagreeable weather it seemed impossible to play a game, but Captain Perry, after in specting the field, agreed to play a twenty-minutes half in order not to disappoint the Academy eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Philips Andover, 10; Harvard Second Eleven, 0. | 10/18/1888 | See Source »

...nine has hardly yet shown, but we hope that the importance of the occasion will call out those qualities. Remember, Ninety-one, you are fighting for more than personal or even class glory. The whole college watches you in your contest today. See that you do not disappoint it. In conclusion, we offer to the nines our hearty encouragement in the work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/19/1888 | See Source »

...into the hands of the upperclassmen now in college, shall be handed down to the coming classes in as prosperous a condition as it was at the beginning of the present year. We hope that at the spring concert now but a few weeks distant, the Sodality will not disappoint the audience that will assemble in Sanders Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/27/1888 | See Source »

...seems a pity that the Monthly, while maintaining its standard as a publication of high literary ability, should so often disappoint its subscribers by not being ready for distribution at the expected time. When the Monthly was first started, the editors were prompt in fulfilling their obligations, but the policy of the present board seems to be one of continual procrastination. There is plenty of time for the editors to get their manuscripts ready for the press, and they are not subject to the same petty inconveniences as those who take charge of the college bi-weeklies. Even a delay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/14/1888 | See Source »

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