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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some one doubts the rhetorical abilities of U. 5. Vide the following note and query at the library: "Is it correct to say 'from Dec. 23rd to Jan. 2nd, inclusive...
...three months will be possible, as all outstanding bills will not have been presented to the bursar before that time. In the opinion of the auditing committee, the price of board, as charged in the term bills for the first third of the year 1881-2, is substantially correct. If, however, it should then appear that excess has been charged above the actual cost of board, such amount shall be placed to the credit of the association, and go to reduce the price of board on the next term bill...
...reporter insisted that he had no such purpose, but as this was his first interview, and as all the other newspapers had asked the same question, he thought it was only the correct thing. This pacified the poet, and he said that AEstheticism is the cultivation of the AEsthetic, adding, "I trust this is clear...
...effect that the authorities, fearing that a large body of men would leave the hall on account of the increased rates, had placed a much lower price on the bulletin board than the actual one; and that the bursar, when making out his term bills, charged the correct price, five dollars per week, which ought to have been posted. As this rumor, if true, would tend to give the impression that an attempt had been made to mislead the members of the association, we give the following facts obtained on the authority of the auditor, the steward and from other...
...M.FOR the benefit of their eight subscribers, we correct the following Aberrations: A model proposal should have been A modest proposal; with should have been with; jittle should have been little; the editorial article on Josiah Quincy should have been written eight months ago, since the name has been on the statue since last spring; to who should have been to whom; the "Proctors' Table Talk" should have been freed of a few vulgarities; and the "Proposal," whether "Model" or "Modest," should not have been accepted...