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Another chief of the Spanish "Black Hand" Society has been arrested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 3/5/1883 | See Source »

...down. I do not doubt that I shall get all the credit I deserve from the public, without regard to what the Tribune may try to tell them about me. As for poor old Yale, she has lots of friends. They have called her 'Black Republican,' 'Beecherite' and all sorts of things besides. They all wag their heads at her and tell her what will happen to her if she does not take their advice, support their interests and defend their notions. She seems to stand it pretty well, so long as she pays no heed to any of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREE TRATE IN COLLEGES. | 2/16/1883 | See Source »

Girl graduates in England wear gowns precisely like those worn by University men, and made by the same tailor. At present they have only donned the B. A., or Bachelor of Arts robes, which is black and brown, and the B. S. C., or Bachelor of Science, which is yellow and black, but no doubt in turn they will attain to those of higher degree. - [Telgram.] If the gowns are becoming to the young ladies no doubt thousands of the sex will endeavor to attain a title just to see how they would look in the robes. This will make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/16/1883 | See Source »

...Alexander's painting of Oliver Wendall Holmes is on exhibition in Boston. It represents Dr. Holmes in his scholastic robes of black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/7/1883 | See Source »

...Lost - A black music-roll, containing valuable private papers. A liberal reward will be paid for its immediate return to the office of the Co-operative Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/6/1883 | See Source »