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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Their arrival is hailed by a yell from a thousand throats, and the plaudits of the fair ones in the balconies. On they come, till they are opposite the senior fence; "Halt," cries their leader, and the column comes to a rest. Then the seniors rise, and at the command of their chief give three hearty cheers for '88, who respond by three equally strong ones for '85. Acknowledging this courtesy, '85 gives three more cheers for the freshmen, who doff their hats and move on to the junior fence, where the same scenes are repeated. As they round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshman Fence. | 10/7/1885 | See Source »

...hope it will be deterre by some scholar, and that the Sunderland copy if it is really the work I am speaking of, may find its way into an American Library. The edition of 1644 is the editio princeps, and it has never been reprinted. It ought to command the price of a Caxton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: James Russell Lowell's Gift to the Library. | 10/2/1885 | See Source »

Thus the names of many illustrious men are connected with the history of the house, and give a peculiar interest to it. But the most famous of all the Americans who visited the house was the Commander-in-chief of the American Rebels in Cambridge, George Washington. During his stay in Cambridge in 1775, at the time when he took command of the Continental army, he slept in Wadsworth House several times before making the Wassail House his permanent headquarters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Famous Residents of Wadsworth House. | 6/17/1885 | See Source »

Members who intend leaving second-hand books on sale, are requested to send them in at once, in order that they may be on the shelves at the beginning of the next year, and thereby command a readier sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co-operative Society Bulletin. | 6/16/1885 | See Source »

Members who intend leaving second-hand books on sale, are requested to send them in at once, in order that they may be on the shelves at the beginning of the next year, and thereby command a readier sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co-operative Society Bulletin. | 6/15/1885 | See Source »

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