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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...look, like thy book, is decidedly blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...book of names at Bartlett's for the Sophomore Class supper will positively be closed on Thursday evening. The price of the tickets does not include wine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...Sophomore Class Supper will take place at Young's Hotel on Friday evening, February 28, at 7 o'clock. The price of tickets will be $3.25, including the book of songs. A book for names is now open at Bartlett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

PHOTOGRAPHS of an instructor in a once popular History Course are now on sale at Sever's. He is represented as just having marked an examination-book forty per cent. The demand has thus far been rather light, so in future a copy of the "Verses from the Harvard Advocate" will be given with each picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...instructor, noticing my horror, kindly offered to explain, and took me with him to the tutorial mansion. I was astonished to see the library-table covered with mathematical instruments, for he did not teach mathematics; the explanation soon came. He first showed me six trifling errors in my book; then he drew a circle with a radius of six inches, inscribed an equilateral triangle, and multiplied half its altitude by twenty; that gave forty-eight, my mark. I asked him to explain the principle on which he did it; but he replied that he had been a long time inventing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOW-WATER MARK. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

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