Word: place
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interclass tug-of-war contests at Columbia took place last evening...
DEAR SIR:-In the spring of 1889, when I was a special student in Harvard College, I obtained, by the assistance of a member of the football team, a place in a store in Cambridge, and also a small loan of money from a Harvard student...
...Scott, '90, consented to take the place of the absent speaker on the affirmative. He said that from Captain Kidd's day to the present silver had been the people's money. Miners on the whole do not make money, and therefore it cannot be objection-able to protect them. Mr. W. Wells, '90, closed the debate. In 1878, he said, the New York Clearing house refused to accept silver dollars except at their real value. A panic was only prevented by the passage of a law compelling national banks to receive the silver dollar at its face value...
...contributions of cast off clothing, shoes, rubbers, books, and c., fer use in missionary work among colored people at Talledga, Alabama, in charge of Frederick Reed, (Harvard '82). All who can contribute anything please send postal to J. B. Lewis, 67 C. H., or A. B. Seymour, 12 Farwell place. A prompt response will enable us to make one shipment before Christmas...
...last in the series of lectures delivered by members of the German department took place yesterday afternoon in Sever 11, when Professor von Jagemann spoke about the Romantic school and the beginning of Germanic Philology. The lecturer said in brief that the Romantic movement which affected German literature in the beginning of this century was a reaction against the classicism and rationalism of the preceding period. Instead of addressing themselves only to the cold understanding of their readers, the writers of the Romantic school appealed to the imagination, the faith, and the superstition of the people. Instead of a onesided...