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...been decided that the course in History 20 under the charge of Dr. Hart, will take up topics in United States history connected with the period since the outbreak of the civil war. The work to be done will consist of a short and a long thesis by each member of the course. This plan must meet the approval of all college men who are interested in questions of original research, for the papers which the men in the course will prepare are intended to be real discoveries. Political matters of importance that heretofore have escaped the notice of historians...
...freshmen at Rutgers Saturday, hired a band and had a parade in which the upperclassmen joined. They "groaned" the president and other members of the faculty, and made considerable disturbance. The cause for the outbreak is the action of the faculty concerning recent acts of vandalism in and about the buildings...
...outbreak of the rebellion a guard for the Arsenal was organized, composed of Harvard students. They marched to the enlivening music of fife and drum, drilled, and stood guard until the matter got to be looked upon as an opportunity for having a good time rather than as a serious and important duty, when their further services were declared to be unnecessary. Later on many regular troops were equipped here with arms and ammunition, and in 1864, at the time when the "Merrimac" was creating such havoc in the neighborhood of Norfolk, Governor Andrew had an addition...
...fear for the mental condition of the Advocate. Our sister had safely passed through the spasmodic outbreak of energy which attended the inauguration of the new board of editors. She was about to relapse into the wonted quiet tenor of her slumberous existence. Suddenly a strange outburst of sound caught her ear, and woke her up again. From the pineclad forests of Maine to the billowy praries of the boundless West; from the frozen confines of the region where the Bates Student pipes its lay to the faraway abode of the Kansas University Review, she heard a swelling chorus resounding...
Cambridge, England is discussing very seriously the sanitary condition of their city. She fears an outbreak of typhoid fever similar to that...