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...organize it, '78 cannot be expected to lend much assistance, though a small gift from the graduating class would not be out of the way. Many men in '79 and '80 are already interested in the existence of this society, and it is to be hoped that it will meet generally with as much favor as it deserves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN HISTORICAL SOCIETY. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

...characters is cultivated to such an extent that we are often accused of neglecting more substantial elements, where it is particularly true that a man is known by the company he keeps, and where social position carries with it influence, -in a college like this we often meet with persons who openly depreciate what they inwardly esteem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCEIT vs. CUSTOM. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

...foot-ball game with Yale has been definitely settled in a way that will meet the approval of all Harvard men. Captain Cushing recently wrote down to Yale, fixing last Tuesday as the latest date to which he was willing to postpone the final decision about the game. A letter was sent in reply, asking him to meet the Yale captain in New Haven on Tuesday. Accordingly Captain Cushing went to Yale, and tried to arrange a match. Yale urged as her excuse for not playing with a fifteen that she had only eleven men in college who knew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

YESTERDAY the following telegram was received from New Haven: "Rather than win the game by forfeit, we will meet you half-way and offer the same terms as to Princeton. We will play with thirteen, the other conditions remaining as before." The calm assurance with which the representative of the Y. U. F. B. C. assures us that we shall forfeit the game if we do not play with an eleven is certainly remarkable, when we bear in mind that it was Harvard, not Yale, that sent the challenge, and that fifteen was the number agreed upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

...programme was well selected, and the pieces, without exception, were well rendered. Mr. Heard's careful training has had already a marked effect, and it certainly seems a little hard that the efforts of both leader and Club should, at their first concert, meet with such slight recognition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GLEE CLUB CONCERT. | 11/23/1877 | See Source »