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...last the inventive genius of Edison has discovered a way by which Harvard students can reach Boston in five seconds, instead of half an hour. No longer will we have to wait in Boston for half-past cars. Impudent conductors will trouble us no more. Soon we will not be obliged to give up our seats to ladies entering the car at the railroad-crossing, nor shall we have the pleasure of riding in town seated next to the professor whose recitations we have been cutting for the past week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDISON'S LATEST. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

...during the last week of the examinations I went to lunch a little earlier than usual, and, as every one else at the table had an examination on that day, I had to wait some time before any one came in. At last in came our Historical Member...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMI-ANNUAL CONVERSATION. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

...Trip to Brazil," too many "Personals," too many "Things Chronicled," and too many "Clippings." The University is a new paper from the University of Michigan, which promises to be good-natured, and leave to the rest of the college press the part of "playing the devil generally." We will wait and see. The Yale Record and Courant are both good representative college papers. They are full of news, and are interesting without being brilliant. They are inclined to be abusive, and abuse when not witty is unpardonable. We never approve of abuse; but when it is rich and incisive like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...visited it recognize that Mr. Hemenway could not have made a wiser gift. The completeness of the appointments prove the wisdom of selecting Dr. Sargent to superintend their preparation, and those who have been impatient for the opening of the building must feel that they could well afford to wait for the perfecting of such advantages as the Gymnasium now offers. There is nothing more to be desired in the building except a full attendance of students of all departments of the University. No student can afford to neglect the twofold opportunity for physical culture which is furnished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1880 | See Source »

...wait and hear the rhyme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

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