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...came a voice from the stage of a fat, many-dashing old actor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POEMS BY EMINENT HANDS. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...response to an invitation from the Society of Christian Brethren and many other students of the College, Rev. Phillips Brooks has gladly consented to preach in Cambridge on the following Sunday evenings: January 25, February 8, April 18, May 16. He is also expected to preach at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, on Sunday evening, January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...five concerts will be given in Sanders Theatre, on Thursday evenings of November, December, January, February, and March, by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra of 40 members, with Mr. Bernhard Listemann as conductor. Distinguished soloists will also take part. The programmes will consist of a great variety of selections from old and new masters. Season tickets at $4 are now ready at the University Bookstore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...Yale crew hope to beat Harvard next year by a new stroke, which is pronounced by some who have seen it to be the first practical stroke Yale has ever adopted. The old hang at the end of the stroke is abolished, and several crooked little points are also done away with. In the new stroke, the reach is shorter than heretofore, to insure a strong and steady grip of the water, and to save the additional exertion formerly used in putting the blade back. In feathering, the blade will be horizontal instead of at an angle of forty-five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...greatest difficulty in the way of establishing here a club like the Union is, of course, the opposition of existing societies. But such a club might exist without interfering in the least with the two or three old societies that no one wishes to see injured, or with the two smaller ones, of which the counterparts are to be found at Oxford as well. The former are essentially class societies, and, as such, will always be strong; the latter have a limited membership, confined to the most popular men in college; none of them would clash with a club like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OXFORD UNION. II. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »