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Simkins, to Miss Innocent, at the spring sports: "Look, they have put Smith's time down at 8.55; I guess they want to keep his record dark." Miss Innocent: "Why, how can they do that if they write it down in white? [The problem is still unsolved.] - [Chaff.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1883 | See Source »

Last week when a student who rooms in one of the down-town blocks was coming out of his room he was stopped by the excited tenant of the room next to his, who wanted to know if he kept a telegraphic instrument in his room. On being answered in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/6/1883 | See Source »

The Post remarks with considerable heat: A majority of the overseers of Harvard University, having done just what they should not have done with respect to the question of conferring a degree upon the governor, and having thus committed the great institution to a policy of narrow-minded exclusiveness utterly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEGREE. | 6/6/1883 | See Source »

A great deal of interest has been excited of late as to whether precedent entitles any incumbent of the governor's chair to a degree; and , in this connection, it is interesting to note, especially with regard to the present governor, what the custom of Harvard has been hitherto. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEGREES. | 6/5/1883 | See Source »

We consider the decision of the overseers unwise, for reasons already stated. But the decision could not have been made by a more representative, or responsible, or authoritative body of men, and it will stand. * * * Waiving any further discussion of a settled matter, it is apparent that the action of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/4/1883 | See Source »