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...special service in honor of Rev. Dr. Bellows will be held in Channing Memorial Church, Newport, next Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/7/1882 | See Source »

...give to the best of his ability, so that they may be absolutely free from debt. Never has a freshman class for years lost the fence, and it is earnestly to be hoped that '85 will keep up the prestige of the former class, and obtain the coveted honor at the first opportunity offered. - [News.] It is too bad that our freshmen have no fence to win in case they defeat the Yale freshmen. What an incentive to hard work such a "coveted honor" would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/4/1882 | See Source »

...expressed itself as follows: "It is rumored that the Yale students propose to receive Oscar Wilde after the manner of the welcome extended to Count Johannes some years ago; putty blowers, decayed oranges and overgrown sunflowers, being substituted for bouquets and applause. The New Haven Register trusts, for the honor of Yale and the credit of the university city, that this programme, if intended, shall be dropped. 'Yale,' it says, 'should let Princeton and Harvard bear off the undisputed palm for rowdyism and boorishness.' As for Princeton, we will say nothing; but, as between Harvard and Yale, on a question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/3/1882 | See Source »

...university. When I asked him why he had selected Harvard as the place for his son's education, he replied: "In my practice I have observed that a large number of men, whose principles I respected, whose manners I liked, and whose idea of professional honor and public duty commended themselves to me, were graduates of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT ELIOT AT CHICAGO. | 2/1/1882 | See Source »

...used to be so proud in his contempt of American buncombe and shams, now hangs his haughty head in humiliation of spirit, and privately pours out the vials of his wrath upon Oscar's devoted head. Poor Oscar, hard is thy fate indeed! When thou hadst thought to win honor and fame upon this foreign strand, and to convert the souls of the heathen to the bliss of intensity and the high mysteries of art, thy friends and kindred turn from thee and forsake thee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/27/1882 | See Source »

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