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...will appear next month from the publishing department of Moses King's book-store. Its title will be King's "Handbook of Boston Harbor." Its pages are devoted to a careful and thorough description of the beautiful harbor of Boston, the marine park of a great State, and the place of summer recreation for hundreds of thousands of people. It aims to be at once a guide to the localities, a history of their ancient quaintness and modern uses, and an artistic memento of scenes which have become, to so many persons, imbued with the deepest interest and the pleasantest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON HARBOR. | 6/23/1882 | See Source »

...York Tribune correspondent at New London thus speaks of the place : "This quiet, staid and eminently respectable old town utterly refuses to allow its pulse to be hastened a single beat by the agitations of college rivalries. The ancient mariners who haunt the wharves vary their brilliant flashes of expectoration with languid converse about the oarsmen, always ending with the contemptuous query, "What could them college chaps do in a whaleboat for a ten-mile pull in the teeth of a gale o' wind?" A few shop-keepers with unwonted enterprise have hung out the blue and white; fresh store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/23/1882 | See Source »

...editors from each college might be chosen. The candidates to be selected from those who are in the journalism of the respective colleges, and to be elected by a committee composed of delegates from the several papers of their colleges. The place of publication should be decided by the majority of the elected editors. The editors who lived in the town where the publication was to be issued to constitute the board of business management. The matter should consist of poetry, or of contributions on any literary subject, interesting to the majority of college students. The main work should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/22/1882 | See Source »

Some deplorable incidents took place recently at one or two churches in Naples, in consequence of an address to the Pope presented by some students. Their companions protested against this address, and a preacher at the Church of San Carlo All' Arena, having used some offensive expressions respecting free-thinking students, some of the latter entered the church on the evening of the 25th of May, apostrophized the preacher, and cried out, "Hurrah for liberty of thought," "Down with the Reactionists." A riot ensued, the congregation attacking the students, who, however, escaped in the confusion. One woman was much hurt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 6/22/1882 | See Source »

...marks in Junior Themes will be given today - Mr. Drennan's in Sever 1, Mr. Gummere's in Sever 5 at 11 A. M. The marks for sophomores will be ready on Friday (class day) at the same hour and place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTICE TO JUNIORS AND SOPHOMORES. | 6/22/1882 | See Source »