Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Austin, L. S. continued the argument for the affirmative. He declared that the geographical position of our country was such that we do not need a large navy to guard our territory. He argued that a navy on account of the improvements in projectiles, guns and torpedoes is becoming more and more inefficient for either attack or defence. The fact that the United States has no colonies and that her commerce is very small are further reasons why the navy should not be increased...
...Harvard Union debate announced for next Wednesday evening, has been postponed to Thursday on account of the change of date of the Kneisel Quartete concert...
...have suggested before this that hour examinations, as now carried on, are one of the greatest hindrances to regularity of work on account of their being given utterly without method and usually in a bunch at the end of the term. We hope that under the new regulations some attention will be paid to method, and avoidance of the crowding of work and its attendant worry and strain. The best recommendations of the Overseers have been adopted; those that have in view better and more regular work. Conscientious, hard-working men they will not affect to any degree, but they...
...account of the new regulations in regard to registering, this morning will see all of the students back in Cambridge. Today is the beginning of the last and shortest term of the year, a term that is by far the pleasantest as well as the most filled with hard work, both in study and athletics. This season is especially the athletic season of the year. It is the time when the real work of the year must be done, the faults of the winter and spring corrected, when every effort must be made to wrest victory from our rivals...
...first game which was to have been played with the New York league team, at Oakland Park, Jersey City was postponed on account of the wet condition of the grounds...