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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this is added the obvious advantage, which members alone have of securing discounts on cash purchases at leading retail stores in Boston. The experience of the past five years makes it safe to say that the member is very exceptional who cannot save several times his membership fee in transactions with these affiliated retail dealers...
...publish to-day the new circular of the Co-operative Society. The circular in a great measure explains itself, but there are many, new to Cambridge institutions, who cannot perceive readily what a great advantage to every student the Co-operative Society is, and so will not read its circular with the sympathy which would come with greater knowledge...
...victories are a big advertisement for the university was never better illustrated than it is this year. Last Thursday the college opened with by far the biggest freshman class it has ever had, 204 or more in the academic department, and about 100 in the scientific school. Now it cannot be denied that President Dwight's vigorous policy and the athletic triumphs are the two things to which this increase is due. From And over Academy alone there are nearly 30 freshmen. Andover is a preparatory school that takes more interest in athletes than any other institution...
...Disadvantages consequent upon location cannot be remedied, but the principal cause of our repeated defeats can be removed. Until there is a cinder track at Cornell, it is safe to say that our runners, at least, will never win anything at Mott Haven. Only those accustomed to running on loose cinders can show to advantage on the tracks in New York City. The long heavy stride developed on a hard, firm clay track is totally unsuited to ground that cups at every step. Practice on a cinder track, however, in time develops a short light step eminently adapted to loose...
...Talks with the Ancients", is an exception here, and should not be so, for it affords no opportunity of hiding flaws and exercises healthily the powers of insight and imagination; whereas descriptions of moonlight and murders, such as our immaturity writes them, are morbid in all their tendencies. We cannot, of course, all be Thackerays, and "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," with the Muses as with less ethereal petticoats. But a vapid dalliance with literature is demoralizing in the last degree...