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...Conference Francaise. This society has from the start shown great activity, and the members have always taken great interest in everything which it has undertaken. The performance this evening promises to be a great success. We understand that the soclety will devote its receipts from the performance to defray the expenses of M. Coquelin's lecture lass fall. Tickets went very rapidly then, and we see no reason why many tickets should not be disposed of this evening. The plays are in modern French and can be readily understood by everyone having any knowledge of the language. We wish...
...Cornell Sun complains that the amount of money which the booting authorities have been able to collect is only half enough to defray the expenses of the crew...
...Herman Oelriehs of New York has offered to defray the expenses of the Yale crew while abroad in case they decide to visit England and row Cambridge. Several New Haven gentlemen have also agreed to contribute a sufficient sum to pay their passages over and back, so that the scheme begins to assume a feasible aspect. The Yale crew themselves are said to be very anxious to take the trip. Were the race rowed the two crews would be made up about as follows...
...dormitory, to be ready for use by next fall. Mrs. R. L. Stewart of New York has given $25,000 to the college, to be used for founding a new professorship. The trustees of the John C. Green estate have given $80,000 to defray the expenses of the new chemical hall. This hall will be situated on Nassau street, near the present science hall and will probably be finished next fall. Another hall-a hall for the new school of electrical engineering-will soon be built. This school will open next fall, and will be equipped with excellent apparatus...
...brightest nature have influenced men to avoid as much as possible the very mention of the crew and matters connected with it. That this position is a false one to assume, every fair-minded man will grant. Winning or losing, the crew must have money to defray expenses; and it is mainly through subscription that this sum is raised...