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...library was established by the society. The medal of the club was of silver, octagonal in shape, on one side of which there is very appropriately engraved a kettle of steaming hasty pudding, surmounted by a hand on each side, one holding a dish, the other a spoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Societies. | 2/22/1887 | See Source »

...building itself is T shaped, the head of the T forming the front on the street. The leg of the T runs back to the rear of the building line, leaving on each side an open space or court twenty feet wide. This shape, giving as it does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/22/1887 | See Source »

...ordinary passer-by, it would seem as if the little Cambridge "muckers," had far more use and enjoyment out of the college yard than the students. A while ago the path from the library to Grays Hall was monopolized by "bobs" loaded with precious freight in the shape of "muckers" young and old, enjoying a pleasant coast. Now there is not a smooth strip of ice in the yard on which a mob of Cambridge youths do not slide during the entire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/15/1887 | See Source »

...stopped another hot foul. The ninth was short and gloriously decisive." Lowell makes one run and Harvard three. "Ecstatic joy and tumultuous congratulations for about five minutes." The nine is carried off in triumph. Mr. J. T. Harris presented it in its tent with a superb trophy in the shape of an ebony bat mounted with silver and gold. The umpire, Mr. Hayhurst, gave "perfect satisfaction!" Harvard, 32; Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard Base-Ball. | 2/14/1887 | See Source »

...very few men extends. That spirit of harmony of interests, whose loss is being so much deplored at Harvard, would be in great measure revived if men turned their attention toward the true nature of the advance and development of the institution that is doing so much to shape their minds and their characters. The same duty that drives the citizen of the United States to study the history of his country, should urge the college student to learn the history of his college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1887 | See Source »

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