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...argued his case before the board, and did not succeed in obtaining from them any reason satisfactory to him why he should not be made a voter. But the board held that students in an institution of learning were not entitled to the privileges of an elector. [Evening Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/7/1882 | See Source »

...Post Office Department is considering the adoption of the tricycle for use in delivering the mail in the large cities of the country. It is though that a large saving would be made in time and labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC AND SPORTING NEWS. | 11/4/1882 | See Source »

...Seventh New York District. that he was a classmate and rival of President Eliot of Harvard while at Cambridge. Young Eliot's ambition was to be president of the college, and Dorsheimer's to be President of the United States. Eliot obtained his wish years ago, and Dorsheimer - well. - [Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/3/1882 | See Source »

...Smith college catalogue, issued yesterday, contains the names of 284 students in the various departments, divided as follows: Post graduates 6; seniors, 49; juniors, 54; sophomores, 66; entering class, 69; music scholars, 25; art scholars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/3/1882 | See Source »

...method of instruction in Greek at Johns Hopkins University is thus commented on in a late number of the N. Y. Post: "The rooms are of a good size, well lighted and handsomely furnished. The cocoa matting of the average college class room is replaced by Brussels carpets; and cane-bottomed chairs are substituted for hard wooden seats. All the works in the university on philology are collected together in this one building. The student then has everything at his elbow. In the seminary library there are one thousand volumes, and in Professor Gildersleeve's study at least two thousand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/2/1882 | See Source »