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...tinker up their poor old ship...
...battle President Langdon, on the steps of the Holmes House, made a prayer before the soldiers just starting for Bunker Hill. Harvard was now entirely given over to the military. Two thousand men were quartered in her halls, and earthworks were thrown up on the College green. In the old meeting-house, which stood very near where Dane Hall now stands, the minute-men and the famous Committee of Safety were organized...
SOMEWHAT more than a year ago Mr. Samuel Osgood, of New York, proposed for the consideration of the Memorial Hall Committee the idea of forming, within the new building, a museum of old Harvard relics of history and art. This in a few years would become a collection of no small importance, and certainly could not fail to increase in interest as years go by. Whether or not any move has been made toward realizing Mr. Osgood's idea we cannot say; but we feel that no time is to be lost in taking a more general action...
...examples of flatness, we may quote the statements that "Columbus is dead"; that " the Cathedral [of Pisa] is built in the form of a Latin cross,"-nothing more being said of the building; and that " before me lay Naples, while on the right, old Vesuvius was sending forth its dense columns of white smoke." Of the Bay of Naples no further mention is made...
...half-mile race (under 15) in 2 min. 36 sec. A boy under 12 ran 100 yds. in 14 1/2 sec.; and a boy under 11 the same distance in 18 sec. Finally, after a number of races of various sorts, an "Old Boys' Race" of 440 yds., which was won in 55 1/2 sec., concluded the sports...