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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...marks on the mid-year examination in Sophomore Rhetoric have been posted, and it is stated are much higher than they have been for the few past years. Only two men failed to pass out of a class of one hundred...
...requested those to sign who think that the railroad owners have at all times tried to please the public and furnish the best accommodations, how much of a response would the petition have met with? The plain truth of the matter is this: The Union Railroad Company in past times have never shown the least willingness to comply with the requests of their patrons until they were frightened into making an effort at improvement by the inception of a new railroad scheme. Why, then, should they expect the citizens of Cambridge to favor them? A rumor has been started...
...weather has been so mild at Princeton for the past two or three days that the nine has been practising out of doors...
...Park-square cars leave Harvard square every fifteen minutes, at eight minutes before the hour, seven minutes past, etc. - the last car leaving Park square...
...pleasant now. Although our out-door sports are limited, on account of the vast drifts of snow, yet we do not lack exercise. Gymnastics have begun and most all the students practice; not with Indian clubs, the trapeze, etc., but in ways very enjoyable to all, nevertheless. Within the past three weeks, our entertainments have been quite numerous for Wellesley. Prof. Adams, of Michigan University, has given us two lectures, "A Day in the House of Commons" and "Papacy in the Middle Ages." The former was especially interesting. Prof. Adams related in a vivid way several amusing incidents...