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...desired and talked about last spring. The writer complained of Harvard's refusal to join a convention which met in New York last fall, and thought that football matches could be arranged without much difficulty if a meeting were held at some half-way point to draw up a set of rules by which games between the two Colleges could be governed. He then went on to state the differences between the rules of Harvard and of Yale, and to show that these differences might be done away with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL MATCHES. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

...set of Turner's Liber Studiorum (sixty-eight plates) in the Gray Collection has been placed in the stand for engravings in Gore Hall, and there are also to be seen there eight pieces privately printed last year by Mr. Seymour-Haden, from plates found in Turner's house after his death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

...desired to say that a small number (about one fifth) of them fall on the same evening with business meetings; the rest of them are not intended to be exclusive, but are meant for all undergraduates who care to attend, on Monday evenings or any of the days set apart by the Episcopal Church, the Evening Service as appointed for that day. Cards giving a list of Services can be procured from' the Secretary, 41 Weld, or at the room of the Society, 17 Grays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

...afternoon. He stares and replies, "Morning, of course." He drives off, saying something about a "midnight sun." So it seems that all this time while the sun has been shining, it was really night. I am disgusted with Norway, and do not understand why the sun did not set. Am afraid that something is out of order in the universe, and that we are going to have an earthquake. Perhaps it is a result of the comet. I hastily work my way back to Christiania, and leave the country by the first steamer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

...CONSIDERATE Sophomore recently declined to write, on the ground that the columns were already filled with stupid articles. We would advise any reader not to set down any oasis in the desert as coming from this individual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/9/1874 | See Source »