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With all its aberrations and inconsistencies a numerous constituency pray for a return of the ancient time-piece of Memorial Hall to its former position. The present representative of the dignity of time is sadly to seek in the qualities demanded for its office.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/17/1883 | See Source »

The election of a member of the faculty to the position of president of the Co-operative Society, besides adding to the stability of the character of the society in some measure, is likely to have an excellent effect in bringing about a greater interest and active participation by the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/17/1883 | See Source »

"Mr. Calhoun spoke like a college professor demonstrating to his class," says John Wentworth, in his "Congressional Reminiscences." "College professors in the South were his great admirers, and taught his doctrines to their students. At the time of his death he was gaining a strong foothold among the scholars of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/16/1883 | See Source »

The annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge, which is to be rowed tomorrow over the Putney-to-Mortlake course on the Thames, has not excited as much attention in this country this season as during some previous ones - possibly because in former years the ocean cable thrilled for a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE RACE. | 3/14/1883 | See Source »

In the last part of its editorial the HERALD has taken a position which borders upon absurdity. It says: "It (meaning aid by scholarships) fills the profession with inferior men, who make the competition greater and hence reduce the rewards an able man has the right to expect for his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS AT HARVARD. | 3/14/1883 | See Source »