Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rule translations from a foreign language lose much of the charm and subtlety of the originals. No truer example of this has come to our notice than the Letters of Victor Hugo, done into English by Paul Meurice (Houghton Mifflin and Co.) It is a work of remarkable interest, including as it does Hugo's unpublished letters to his father, wife, children, and to many famous persons. But much of the refinement and delicacy of phrase is lost in the translating; and the reader feels that he is hearing Hugo's words from the lips of some one else...
...match for the Founders' Cup, fifteen birds, was won by P. Bancroft '98 with a score of thirteen. There will be a shoot next Saturday afternoon from two to half-past four o'clock. All members of the club and freshmen who are interested in shooting are urged to come out and shoot. The new rapidfiring system enables four men to shoot in rapid succession, so that a large number of men can shoot without interfering with each other...
There will be a shoot this afternoon at the grounds on Soldiers Field, from half past two to half past four o'clock. It is hoped that more men will come out than heretofore. The Founders' Cup will be shot for. As the football game with Cornell will be played at Ithaca, there will also be a shoot Saturday afternoon...
...Weld Boat Club is just now in a critical condition financially. Only about twenty men have joined this fall, and only one of these is a freshman, although the larger part of the increase in membership should come from the new men. if many more men do not join at once the boathouse must be closed next week for lack of money to meet expenses...
Freshmen who can come out to run during Mr. Lathrop's hours on the track, eleven to one, on only two or three days a week, should come out and do their work under his direction ont those days. He will tell them how to do the reset of the week's work alone...