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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...press, we learn Muzzes Khin is about to publish a map of the course. As the artist will have some difficulty in following it, the usual crimson cover will have to be omitted on the score of expense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOMETHING TO ADORE; OR, THE HARE AND HOUNDS CHASE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...frog. They have to learn all sorts of things, - Ethics and Dentistry and Agriculchar, and another kind of culchar that they learn in the pretty building with the bell. Among other things, they have to learn Geography. Now I never could remember all those colors on the map, - could you? Green for Arizona and blue for Oregon. I have a pair of - Oh! bless me, I quite forgot - so I 've thought of a way to interest the poor little things. Make nice pretty verses about all the places, and they 'll learn a good deal about them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANNEX ON SUB-FRESHMEN. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...LUCIUS L. HUBBARD, '72, has in press a practical guide-book to Moosehead Lake and vicinity, with illustrations and a map of Northern Maine. It will be ready by July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ANNUAL ILLUSION. | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

MOSES KING'S new edition of "Harvard and its Surroundings" bears the evidence of careful revision and judicious alteration. The heliotypes of the different buildings (numbered) are arranged in the same order as the letter-press description, and the map of the Yard is so numbered as to enable the visitor to make its circuit with the book in hand, without being confused by the mystical directions that are found usually in guide-books. A better selection of college interiors than in the last edition is noticeable in the present volume...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...regular debating society has been formed. Fierce discussions take place at breakfast, lunch, and dinner on subjects of every kind. I have heard them discuss free-thought in all its aspects at one meal, and at the next the probable course of Mukhtar Pasha. They keep a war-map at the table for reference. I can overhear every word they say, though there are two or three tables between us. Their violent gestures and reckless use of knives and forks may give force to their arguments, but they have the additional effect of entirely destroying my appetite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

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