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...Committee after consulting a few undergraduates; let the topics chosen at first be of not too exciting a kind; let some rule of re-invitation be adopted by which the Committee shall be able to weed out the more unreasonable,-and we predict that the thing will go along smoothly and quietly, until in the course of a year or two the students will be educated up to the thing, will grow accustomed to it, and soon something of real value will result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/8/1885 | See Source »

...anticipated pleasure and with zest. And this is just the spirit which our new assistant is trying to infuse into what, before have been to many irksome tasks. We never till now, realized Low necessary is an instructor in gymnasium work, and we only wonder how we have got along all this time without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/9/1884 | See Source »

...like the pilgrims of old, they set out on a pilgrimage. Now those who were fortunate enough to behold these Three Important Persons saw a strange sight. First came the Chair Man (so called because he carried on his back a camp stool) wheeling and circling in graceful curves along the roadside upon a bicycle of wonderful make. Behind him came the second of this triumvirate, carefully measuring the above named circles, and reckoning the longitudinal distance between the size of one and the diameter of another. And this person rode upon a horse, and his body was like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Episode. | 12/1/1884 | See Source »

...proposed to lay out a new polo ground in New York. The site selected is along the Harlem river, near High Bridge Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/15/1884 | See Source »

...band in a parade in that classic town. The procession was a great success, notwithstanding the mud and wet weather. The band, it is perhaps needless to say, kept to its usual high standard of merit, and met with the universal approval of muckerdom, which was extremely well represented along the route. The beet part of this parade is generally considered to be the supper, which a member, living in Chelsea, kindly provided for the band. It is rumored that there were several young ladies present at the party, and also that the grime and general slime of the uniforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Brass Band in the Campaign. | 11/6/1884 | See Source »