Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Shooting Club will close a most satisfactory series of matches to-day. No new series has been arranged at present and there will be no more work until after the mid-years. The practice throughout the fall has been enthusiastically carried on and the scores have been exceedingly good. The work of the new men has been especially praiseworthy and gives promise for the increased prosperity of the Club. The present management has been excellent and has done much to increase the popularity of the gun among us. The beautiful set of cups now on exhibition are the rewards...
...besides this our "friend of humanity" proposes to put all corporations under government control and cites many good authorities to support him in this and the taxation question. The "Problem" being solved he closes with the defiant remark that "if this be socialism, I am a socialist. . . ." Such books seldom do good, yet they often have their use. Let us hope this one may affect any mind that takes it up for good. But there is always a certain feeling of disapprobation accompanying anything of this sort when at the close one finds that the author does not wish...
Vesper services will be held on Thursday of each week in term-time until further notice. Each service will begin promptly at 5 p.m. and close at 5.30. It will be largely musical and will contain a short address. The public are invited to these services...
...with various other events of the kind, show the social activity that for the moment replaces that of the out-door athletics. The university Chess Club is now in the midst of a tournament for which there were thirty-one entries and which bids fair to result in a close and interesting contest; and a strong competition for the various papers and literary magazines is making itself apparent. The "Banner" for 1886-7 will be ready for sale this week, and will undoubtedly be the most attractive one ever published. One feature of the issue is the cuts of three...
...swimming tank, with all the necessary bathing facilities in one and the same building, to which structure all the lockers, also, should be removed. A fund has been started for the erection of such an edifice, to be built just back of the gymnasium and in close connection with it, in fact forming part of it. This fund now amounts to about twenty thousand dollars, but thirty thousand must be contributed before the foundations can be laid. Here then is a chance for our complainers to prove themselves generous benefactors to the university by subscribing to this fund...