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Lost-A silver scarf pin with an ox's head. Finder will confer a favor by leaving at Brock and Leavitt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 6/4/1884 | See Source »

...students and graduaates of Eton, the great English preparatory school, are much perplexed over the interference of the Crown in the appointment of a gentleman to succeed the late Dr. Goodford, as head master of Eton. This being the first vacancy since the constitution of the governing body, the new provost will be nominated by the Crewn, a right which has always been hotly contested by the fellows in former days, as they asserted that it was a usurpation. The right of electing a provost was undoubtedly vested in the fellows by the statutes; in practice, however, they usually elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISPUTE OVER THE POWER TO APPOINT A HEAD MASTER. | 6/4/1884 | See Source »

...standing of the college nines shows Harvard still at the head as far as games won is reckoned, but Yale leads in per cent. won. Princeton and Dartmouth are fighting hard for the last place. Amherst; Yale and Harvard have each a good chance to win in the end, while it looks as if Brown was booked for the fourth place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/2/1884 | See Source »

...Bostons have at last defeated the New Yorks. By the victory of the Philadelphia's over Providence, the Bostons are now advanced to the head of the league clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/28/1884 | See Source »

...Forty Immortals" writes as follows to the Literary World: There are certainly some curious features about the Critic's list of forty American Immortals. One of these is the fact that its pyramid rests, unlike those of Egypt, upon the apex. Mr. Francis Parkman certainly ranks very near the head of our living authors, whatever may be his sins in the way of political pessimism, yet he stands at the very bottom of the Critic's list. It moreover appears that he would not have occupied even this humble position but for the fact that two or three gentlemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRITIC'S IMMORTALS AGAIN. | 5/28/1884 | See Source »