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Messrs. Cunningham and Heath, Pearl Street, have a splendid assortment of the most improved English bicycles, and they offer rare chances of learning to ride the vehicle in a large room used for that purpose only. Their room is a capital place of exercise also for those who think of entering into the bicycling club or races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BICYCLING. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

...inscription on the base-ball case, in the Auditor's room of Memorial Hall, is a curious melange: Ex dono '78, '79, '80, January, 1878. The grammatical canon is yet to be found which authorizes such a jumble of Latin, Arabic numerals, and English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...University Beacon declares that one of the "prevailing vices" of college English (which means English in college papers) is "a lack of statuesqueness in ideas!" If we had seen that expression in a paper hailing from the Cape of Good Hope or the Feejee Islands, we could still have sworn that it was written within a mile of the gilded dome of the State House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...Greek 9; English 5; French 1, 4; Natural History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/11/1878 | See Source »

...most pressing needs of the College are new professorships in jurisprudence, American history, hygiene, and architecture; and it is desirable that the professorships of German, surgery, elocution, English, history of art, modern languages, political economy, and music should be permanently endowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. | 1/11/1878 | See Source »