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Representatives of Bates College are in Boston endeavoring to get its endowment raised from its present amount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/18/1882 | See Source »

...Woman's Journal thinks that in "the present epidemic of college rowdyism," only the co-educational institutions escape the contagion. Co-education did not save Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/18/1882 | See Source »

Pippins, solemnly warned that his present course will surely shorten his days, says his consolation is that it will at least lengthen his nights. Elect another course, Pippins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/18/1882 | See Source »

...soliciting subscriptions to a fund to be devoted to the further collection of specimens of American archaeology. The need is very urgent, for exploration in this country is being carried on so rapidly that soon all the best specimens of aboriginal civilization will have been collected; and at present our museum has no funds whatever for making collections. Theodore Lyman, J. C. Phillips and Stephen Salisbury head the list with $500 each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/18/1882 | See Source »

...well as legal announcements, is certainly an interesting and successful publication; and Harvard should not longer remain in need of some such a publication. Hardly any more useful application for a moderate endowment could be suggested than one towards defraying the expenses of such a publication. The Bulletin, at present, is only quarterly; its notes are meagre and unsatisfactory; and as a whole it is not a fair representative of Harvard. Although an unofficial and private publication, if countenanced by the authorities, has many advantages over a strictly official publication, still as a substitute for the former, the latter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/17/1882 | See Source »