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...outbreak of the rebellion a guard for the Arsenal was organized, composed of Harvard students. They marched to the enlivening music of fife and drum, drilled, and stood guard until the matter got to be looked upon as an opportunity for having a good time rather than as a serious and important duty, when their further services were declared to be unnecessary. Later on many regular troops were equipped here with arms and ammunition, and in 1864, at the time when the "Merrimac" was creating such havoc in the neighborhood of Norfolk, Governor Andrew had an addition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Arsenal. | 2/24/1886 | See Source »

Special attention is called to the fact that, by the regulations, no overdue theme will be accepted, unless the writer satisfies the Dean that his failure to present it at the appointed time was due to serious illness or unavoidable hindrance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 2/19/1886 | See Source »

...makes it larger. This enlargement of the chest is also performed by little muscles between intercostals. They raise the ribs from their oblique position. In ordinary healthy respiration the current of air passes in and out of the lungs through the nose, not through the mouth. It is a serious fact that men breathe more by the action of the diaphragm than women do, in whom the intercostals appear to do a large share of the work of respiration, so that the upper part of the chest rises and falls more in the ordinary breathing of a woman than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Health and Strength. IX. | 2/18/1886 | See Source »

...Therefore, for the best success of Harvard journalism, it seems to the present writer that in time a fusion of the "Lampoon" and the "Advocate" will be necessary. The result will be a paper devoted to the lighter side of student life, as the "Monthly" is to the more serious. Whatever it prints, however, may well be most excellent in literary from and finish. The "Lampoon-Advocate," or whatever the paper is called, if not professedly funny in everything, may contain, besides sketches such as now come out in the "Lampoon," good, bright, short stories, not too serious, and often...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Years' Changes in Harvard Journalism. | 2/15/1886 | See Source »

...ground is getting to be an intolerable nuisance, and should be stopped." Of course, we regret very much that Harvard men should be the cause of an "intolerable nuisance." although we have not been aware that our athletes were crowding persons from the walks and frightening horses in the serious degree that the Cambridge Tribune seems to indicate, yet we are sorry that Harvard men are troublesome at all to the public on the avenue, and we trust that hereafter more care and discretion will be shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/8/1886 | See Source »

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