Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Guitar Club is a new organization, yet one that deserves attention and appreciation. A guitar and mandolin club fills a want which a banjo club cannot satisfy, and we are glad to see that such a club has been formed. The guitar club at Princeton is very popular, and has made a great hit wherever it has played. As the club has been formed only since the first of this year, it is as yet only an experiment, but everything points to success, although just at present the club is hampered by the illness of one of its members. There...
...small sum from every man in college would soon mount up, and every man who does help even with a mile will have the pleasure of feeling that he has helped carry on the movement so earnestly begun. Here, indeed, is a chance for true charity. If a man cannot give much, let him give little. The committee, with excellent taste and judgment, have so arranged matters that the amount of anyone's contribution will be known only to himself. So no one need be ashamed to give but a small...
...will attack "muckerism" at Yale just as severely as we do at Harvard, or whenever it comes in contact with us; and reconsideration's or retractions coming weeks after the trouble complained of, will be viewed through the vista which time accords, and consequently cannot have the weight of immediate denial. Glad as we should be to consider the position of the News tenable, we cannot do so, nor can we unite with it in considering the reported words of the Yale captain as "a petty matter." At Harvard such a thing would be called not petty but gigantic boorishness...
...treasurer was very satisfactory, which showed that the association is free from debt. The constitution and playing rules were discussed, and a number of changes were proposed, but no very radical ones were carried. It was, however, voted that when a referee is chosen who finds that he cannot serve he shall provide a substitute to do away with possibility of having to accept one who is prejudiced in favor of either contestant. A motion to have two referees was lost...
...capable of saying much about the Dvorak symphony. At the end of several of the tough passages the violins would look at each other in mute congratulation that they had come out even. However, it is a grand composition and deserves our admiration even if we cannot understand some parts...