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Amherst College expects to put a stronger base ball team in the field than ever before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 1/16/1882 | See Source »

...deficit for 1880-81, amounting to $34,469.19, is the largest which the college has ever incurred, and has forced the corporation to consider anxiously the measures necessary to prevent the recurrence of such a reduction of capital. After deducting from the deficit all those expenses of the year which can properly be called extraordinary, there remains an excess over receipts to the amount of, at least, $15,000. Since the beginning of the year a gift of $100,000 from the estate of the late Eben Wright has been received for carrying on the library. The corporation will, this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD DURING 1881. | 1/13/1882 | See Source »

...wear them. It's due time the "mortar boards" were obtained, and for a few weeks Providence assumed a very classical air, but with the advent of colder weather the hats were delegated to the shelf, and there they now rest. It is not likely that they will ever come down again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER FROM BROWN. | 1/12/1882 | See Source »

...Mascot" was sung at, last evening, at the Gaiety, by an organization advertised as the Wilbur Opera Company. This is the poorest apology for an opera company that it has ever been our misfortune to hear, and, judging from the audience, very few people were willing to accept the apology. It is an imposition for a manager to gather a lot of people who never studied a note of music, who couldn't tell the difference between a symphony in G minor and a tune written by Mr. Brahman, and call it an opera company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO. | 1/10/1882 | See Source »

Little did we think when we first mentioned the matter of Memorial Hall to a long suffering public, that the avenging Nemesis would so soon come upon us. Ever since that fatal day, communications have flowed into our office until we had literally to wade through them to get to our editorial desk. And what a variety; enough to put the rats of Hamlin to shame; some, aggressive and pungent, others caustic and malicious, others again, whining and plaintive; one calls for the auditor's report, another for the bursar's; one asks for an expert, and another wants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1882 | See Source »