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...large number of strangers visited the college on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/9/1882 | See Source »

...that time Rev. John Kirkland, D. D., LL. D., was president, and the faculty numbered thirty members. The buildings, seven in number, were as follows : Divinity, Holworthy, Stoughton, Hollis, Massachusetts, College House and Second College House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IN 1826. | 1/9/1882 | See Source »

Statisties show that the smallest number of immigrants which has landed in this country in one year since the founding of the bureau of emigration is 54,536. The largest number is nearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 1/7/1882 | See Source »

...specified on their face." Are we to understand by this that a man who does not board at the hall shall be debarred from the privilege of taking his friends into the gallery at meal-time? Such strict application of the rule will certainly prove obnoxious to a large number of men who board outside the hall, but still retain enough interest in it to wish to visit the place occasionally with their friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/6/1882 | See Source »

...last number of the Acta fairly bristled with sarcasm on the N. Y. Sun and abuse of its literary taste. The cause of the explosion was a severe criticism in the Sun of a certain sentimental, rather "gushy" sonnet on love and the tender passions, that appeared in a late number of the Acta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/6/1882 | See Source »