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...take pleasure in announcing the election of Henry James, 2d, John Wells Farley, James Birch Rorer, and William Henry Conroy, Jr., of the class of Ninety-Nine, and of Frederick Ezekiel Bissell, Graham Owen Smith, Samuel Watts Lewis, Richard Haughton, and Rupert Sargent Holland, of the class of Nineteen Hundred, as regular editors of the CRIMSON; also of Edward Austin Waters '98, and of Clarence Churchill Mann '99, as assistant business managers of the CRIMSON...
...wish to speak of oratory and acting, which reminds me of a time that I visited a little New Hampshire school house. After I had surveyed its walls, whitewashed inside and outside, its hard benches and plain blackboard, the unsympathetic teacher and the sympathetic birch rod, an old gentleman came up to me and said: "We don't want any school around here. Years ago we got along without it. I'm going to vote agin it and so's my wife. Daniel Webster, when he was a boy, got it into his head that he had to study books...
...SALE.- Steam Launch, cost $450 will sell for $175. New boiler this year. First-class fittings; also Birch Bark Canoe. Apply to janitor Weld Boat House...
...Birch Canoe for Sale.- Apply to Hart at Weld Boat House...
Class III. Tandem birch. 1-2 mile straight-away...