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...Lucille Western colored dramatic company will present the drama "East Lynne" in Lyceum Hall, Tuesday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 4/27/1882 | See Source »

...OEdipus Tyrannus." The subject is one specially interesting to students at Harvard, and Professor Packard handled his text in a manner quite acceptable to his audience. Taking the object of this course of lectures into account, it is a matter of surprise that there was not a larger audience present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/27/1882 | See Source »

...meeting of the committee for a new Harvard song book was held yesterday afternoon. A majority of the committee was present. After Mr. Cushing was elected secretary it was voted that invitations be sent to the leading writers of verses in the college, to induce them to write humorous poems. The committee will choose the best of these, and those chosen will be set to music by others who will be invited to compose. The book is to contain a number of songs entirely new, together with other good and suitable ones collected from the best sources. It is proposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW SONG BOOK. | 4/27/1882 | See Source »

...over our freshmen were mentioned by your correspondent of a few weeks ago. If we cannot make some radical change in the management of the freshman nine it is an absolute necessity for the good of the college that the freshman games should be abolished. As matters are at present it makes no difference how many victories the University wins over Yale, this Yale freshman series always appears before us as a bugbear. The few games that have been played by the freshmen this year do not promise as much us we had hoped. There is undoubtedly excellent material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/26/1882 | See Source »

...elective system, seems to have excited an unwonted amount of thought and questionings upon the subject at other colleges, and especially at Yale and Cornell. The Courant calls Prof. Hale's letter "conclusive and convincing." And in consideration of the universal interest and discussion of the question at present, it calls upon the faculty at Yale to make its defence and present its apology for persisting in its present course. It says: "If the time has not yet come for what the News terms 'swinging round,' the time has certainly come when the reasons that lead to our keeping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/25/1882 | See Source »