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...instructed to see that Columbia and the University of New York play in Cambridge in 1882, and if Princeton will not play in Cambridge, that she will meet Harvard in another place, as Newport. The Harvard team has adopted the following uniform : White hat with crimson band, red and black striped jersey with college arms embroidered on left chest, black knee-brecches and striped stockings...
...Shepard's "Pen Pictures of Authors," to be published soon by the Putnams, will contain "A Visit to Tennyson," by M. D. Conway; "Recollections of Hawthorne," by Geo. Wm. Curtis; a paper on Prof. Lowell, by Justin McCarthy, and conversations with George Eliot, Jean Ingelow and Wm. Black...
...dramatization of the very worst of Black's novels, "Madcap Violet," is being produced in London...
AEsthetic Boston is flocking to the "Black Crook," not that they care for the show, but the ballet girls are so superlatively antique. - [Yale News...
...industry.' Contrary to a common belief, this is not the condition of a tenure, nor does any advantage accrue to the institution by its observance. There is nothing particular about the needles either. To be precise, they lock like 7s sharps, and the silk, either of crimson, blue or black, is only such silk as may be purchased anywhere. The use to which the articles are devoted is to wear them with the silk wound in a knot about them, as ornaments for the buttonhole or cap. Altogether, the custom has only the merit of quaintness, and, even...