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Ginn, Heath & Co., of Boston, offer to undertake the publishing of the proposed college song book, if Mr. Brewer of Chicago should fail in the attempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/15/1882 | See Source »

...patriotic and liberty-loving class is generally-felt. Yet the rebuke implied in the following sentence from Senator Hoar's oration on Garfield, is without doubt sometimes deserved: "Beyond all," Mr. Hoar says, "Dr. Hopkins taught his pupils that lesson in which some of our colleges so sadly fail - reverence for the Republican life of which they were to form a part, and for the great history of whose glory they were inheritors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/7/1882 | See Source »

...should fail to read the four-column article on R. H. Dana, by H. W. Muzzey, Esq., in the current number of the Cambridge Tribune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/3/1882 | See Source »

...electrical or telegraph engineering. This profession being the latest one, has not yet become over-crowded. Great fortunes have been made in Europe and this country in this new profession. Many think we have too many clergymen, lawyers and doctors, and ninety-five per cent, of the business men fail. There are two places in England and one place in America where this new profession is taught. If any of your younger readers are interested I should be pleased to give them any information in my power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW PROFESSION. | 3/2/1882 | See Source »

...life. We find the meeting-room hung with trophies, and photographs of noted athletes, all of which represent out-door events, and victories on land and water. Our winter meetings in the gymnasium are popular and profitable, and often represent a deal of athletic practice and training, but we fail to find any pictorial or tablet records of them, except in one or two cases. All the events peculiar to in-door athletics, which have been so interesting and important a feature annually, under the auspices of the Athletic Association, seem to be almost entirely neglected in its records...

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

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