Word: acte
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...managers of the Infantry Hall skating rink, Providence, were yesterday summoned to appear before a United States commissioner to answer a complaint brought under the civil rights' act for refusing admission to a colored lawyer because of his color. There will be a hearing tomorrow...
...distillers are confident that the House will act favorably upon the bill to reduce the tax on whiskey...
...Cambridge Tribune accounts for the rumor of small-pox as follows: "The small-pox excitement originated on Wendell street, by the hanging out of a scarlet cloth to call in a fishman. This act was sufficient to start the rumor that a student had been taken from the house to a hospital where he was down with the small-pox, and that a young lady in another house on the same street was sick with the same disease. There has not been a case in the city so far as we can learn. Imagination sometimes is very vivid in anticipation...
Many remarks have been made lately concerning the apparent change of tone in the Boston papers toward Harvard students. Last year they were wont to treat every little, thoughtless act with the utmost severity, as if it were premeditated, and were intended to shake the peace of the Commonwealth to its very foundation. Last year the freak of the freshmen at Oscar Wilde's lecture would have made the subject of editorials of the bitterest kind, denouncing not only the sixty "bold, bad men," but also the whole college. They now pass lightly over what last year would have been...
...Boston Post, which usually keeps its weather eye open for all sorts of students' scrapes, and comments upon them somewhat severely, propounds the following conundrum: "What is the matter with the college boys? They act as though they were inspired. Princeton students have been on trial for misdemeanors; Cornell sophomores have been arrested for abducting freshmen, and Williams College students have made the services of the police necessary by very rowdyish demonstrations at North Adams. We hope the evil of "crankism" will not extend to our higher institutions of learning. It is better to be aesthetic...