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Ginn, Heath & Co., of Boston, offer to undertake the publishing of the proposed college song book, if Mr. Brewer of Chicago should fail in the attempt...
...attempt has been made to blackmail Harvey D. Parker, proprietor of the Parker House, Boston...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: It is far from my purpose to attempt in any way to throw a wet blanket upon such an assured success as the Cooperative Association, but I should like to ask if the conduct of the gentlemen was not a little premature, who assembled a few nights ago to discuss "informally" (so it was understood) the prospects of the scheme. Officers were elected to an association which did not then exist. The audience who had gathered seemed unable to comprehend this, despite the laudable efforts of one or two gentleman who seemed desirous to impress upon them...
...store. The application of the system to a community of college students is certainly novel and, as far as we can learn, unprecedented, and our sister colleges will look upon our undertaking with the greatest interest. Harvard thus occupies the important position in having taken the initiative, adapting this attempt in economic finance to the peculiar circumstances and customs of student life...
...careful how you attempt to get excused from a recitation in classics on the ground that you are horse. It won't go down. - [Record...