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...celebrated university located in our midst. Founded only six years after the settlement of "the old town of Newtowne," that name was changed to Cambridge in memory of the English Cambridge, where several of the Puritan magistrates and elders had been educated, and it has been through its whole course a college town. The university has grown with its growth and strengthened with its strength. There are some who look upon the fair lands of Harvard with an eye to their taxable value, but the great mass of our citizens fully realize and appreciate the advantages we enjoy from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD UNIVERSITY. | 1/4/1882 | See Source »

...This is so ridiculous that it is, of course, untrue. But the word "repairs" is indefinite and we would like to hear from the auditor. In all probability, the matter is clear enough to those that understand it, but common justice requires that we should all understand it. The whole affair looks peculiar from a business standpoint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/4/1882 | See Source »

Last week, one W. P. Brown, a laborer in the Treasury Department, made a serious charge against Senator Sherman, before the Senate Committee. When put on oath yesterday he denied the statement, and confessed that the whole story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 1/4/1882 | See Source »

...auditor, who approved them, and charged them to this surplus fund of $1800, instead of to the amount received for board during the last term. If these repairs had been paid out of this surplus fund, the price for board would have averaged about $4.70 per week for the whole term; whereas if they had been paid out of the money received last term, it would have averaged about $5.00 per week. The auditor chose the former plan for paying them, while the bursar preferred the latter. So the whole matter seems to be a misunderstanding between the auditor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRICE OF BOARD AT MEMORIAL. | 1/3/1882 | See Source »

...Remember, the whole of the holiday recess. Don't make any other engagement. Be sure to come. Kate (Kate is the Yale girl) is going to stay with me all through the holidays, and she wants you to come ever so much. Of course she has not told me so in just so many words. Indeed, when I told her that I should invite you, she asked what difference that made to her; but you should have seen her face when she said it. You'll come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE GIRL. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »