Word: document
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brown student who was searching, a few days ago, for a missing piece of property in the dismantled interior of University Hall noticed among the ruins of the chimney an old document of singular appearance, which curiosity led him to examine closely. It is a deed to six and a half acres of land, called the Black Fields, in Miteham, Sussex, England, and is dated Lady Day, March, 1651. Brown University was founded in Sussex, England, and subsequently removed to Rhode Island, and it is thought possible that the ancient parchment which has just been brought to light...
Another protection document, in the shape of a speech of Hon. D. C. Haskell, M. C., has been franked to the students of the college...
...Document No. 3 of the N. Y. Association for the Protection of American Industry has been distributed throughout the college. Where are the free trade societies...
...president's report will be read with interest by all persons connected with Harvard University. This document is to the Harvard community what President Arthur's annual message to Congress is to the country at large. Every year it is looked forward to as the official presentation of facts and solution of difficulties that have puzzled us. Here we expect to find explanations for actions that have been incomprehensible and therefore to some extent have seemed unnecessary. The document before us gives us the explanations and presents a great deal of matter of interest...
...consider every one who signed the document as responsible for it, but suppose that many signed it in July, when they did not understand the state of affairs, who would not have done so in October after it had all been explained. It was probably forwarded in haste by a few of the signers, who did not consult the others but took it for granted that their sentiments were the same as when it was signed and before Harvard had been heard from...