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President Barnard of Columbia lately spoke in disparaging terms of the proposed school at Athens. This moves the Times to ire and irony. It says: "Why should our young men go to Athens to study Greek? Is not American Greek good enough for Americans? The American system produces Hellenists like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/28/1882 | See Source »

Be careful how you attempt to get excused from a recitation in classics on the ground that you are horse. It won't go down. - [Record.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 2/28/1882 | See Source »

Chief interest centred upon the young gladiator, Magnus Pugnus, whom the management have been so judiciously advertising. After killing three lions, an elephant, six leopards, crushing the skull of an ox, kicking down a frame house and eating ten or twelve slaves, he was pitted against one of the stock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROMAN DAILY SQUINT-EYE. | 2/23/1882 | See Source »

There is an idea prevailing in the breast of many men who are fond of "fun" of a more boisterous kind, that a Cambridge policeman is a pitiless avenger of students' escapades, whose only desire is to lie around corners and get students into trouble. If such persons would call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALK WITH A CAMBRIDGE POLICEMAN. | 2/20/1882 | See Source »

A large fire is now raging in Haverhill; Mass. It has been burning since midnight, and is beyond the control of the firemen. Engines have been sent from Boston. Telegraph and telephone communication have been broken down. Flames were plainly visible from Boston.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/18/1882 | See Source »