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...this graduate is one who has been to a great extent identified with our rowing affairs, and since we think that the college at large wholly disagrees with him in this instance, we wish to make an emphatic statement of what we have good reason to believe is the general disapproval of such sentiments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/12/1882 | See Source »

...code is wide open for a decided advance towards the English Foot-ball Association's rules, with the view of encouraging kicking more and contracting the field for rushing with ball in hand. The kicking in this match gave a new interest to the game, which the crowd in general fully appreciated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/11/1882 | See Source »

...course which claims the privilege of exclusive use of the book are forced to either go without or suffer the inconvenience of long waiting for the restoration of the book to its ordinary place. Some books, it is true, that are on the reserved list, have been duplicated for general use, but not all, as should be the case. The value of the library as a circulating library is perhaps fully as great for the purposes of practical study and general culture as its value as a library of reference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/11/1882 | See Source »

...attorney-general of New York has granted a hearing on an application made to him by Joseph P. Greaves, to bring suit in the name of the people against the Western Union Telegraph Co., to vacate its charter and remove the directors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 12/11/1882 | See Source »

While the topic is yet fresh it may fitly be remarked that this is not the first occasion on which Harvard College has been creditably identified with a general observation of the transit of Venus. On the occasion of the transit of 1874 the phenomenon was not visible here, but in respect to the previous transit in 1769, and so to speak, its companion of 1761, Harvard has an honorable record. The college had no observatory then and but a meagre supply of instruments, but what were at command did good service. There was no observatory in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/9/1882 | See Source »