Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...operative tradesmen. Members can congratulate themselves that in no point in the society's history has it been found necessary to levy an assessment. The stability and usefulness of the society as a college institution is now well assured. The society has been run on a close financial basis, as is the safer plan, and therefore has often been hampered by lack of capital with which to conduct its operations. It has always, however, been able to profit by the courtesy of affiliated tradesmen, and thus has not seriously suffered from this cause. It would be much better...
...Entr'acte, from Reinecke's Manfred, was admirably in the spirit of the whole programme. While thoroughly German in character, of the modern school, it was beautiful and impressive, without being difficult to grasp. The orchestra played it in a masterly manner, attaining a wonderfully soft pianissimo at the close...
Mails at the Post Office, Harvard square, close...
...person having a good pair of legs and in a climate where warmed punch is found insufficient to keep up the animal heat. Does the reader know how to play a game at cricket-match? Two posts are placed at a great distance from one another. The player, close to one of the posts, throws a large ball towards the other party, who awaits the ball to send it far with a small stick with which he is armed. The other players then run to look after the ball, and while this search is going on the party who struck...
...through with. When filled with this spirit, students are much more approachable than they ordinarily are and often yield to instincts which, were it not for the infusion of said spirits, would have no influence whatever. We have every reason to suppose from what we have seen that the close of the recent examination does not differ in the least from similar occasions in the past and that the spirit of which we speak is as prevalent as usual. Such being the case, the managers of the various college organizations whose pleasant duty it is to solicit subscriptions...