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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Senior Class elections on Monday night were extremely well managed, and the Committee are to be congratulated on the success of their arrangements; for there was no hitch in the proceedings, and the meeting ended several hours earlier than any previous one. It is to be regretted that one section of the class did not sustain the Committee in their efforts to have no society candidates. It was perfectly evident that one society voted as an organized body for single candidates nominated as the candidates of that society. The general tone of the meeting, however, was very free from society...
...used to know at home. She seemed much amused at seeing me, and asked me how I got in. I had one waltz with her, during which she said that '79 was her class, and asked me if I did n't wish I had been born a year earlier. Then up came an officious Senior and whisked her off to see the illuminations...
...Directors to be exempted from its provisions. At their meeting on Wednesday the Directors acknowledged the unfairness of the rule by rescinding it. Other petitions for deduction for the same reason as mine came before them, however. They voted to allow deductions covering the last recess, but none earlier; and, as a consequence, quite a number of claims - mine among them - were denied. It seems to me that this discrimination of the Directors between claims based on exactly the same grounds is more unfair, if possible, than the rule itself. If it is right that exemption from an unjust rule...
...with lifting-machines, and Eng 6, a test of the capacity of the lungs. Phil 7 was hazardous tight rope walking, Phil 2 a performance upon the flying trapeze, and Phil 3 apparently was a balloon ascension. (This last statement, I know, supposes that balloons were invented at an earlier date than is commonly given; but probably the ascensions so plainly described here were only to a small height and in a captive balloon. Some, however, maintain that this amusement was not a balloon ascension at all but was diving after stones in muddy water) Span I was a three...
These races will not interfere with the regular scratch races, which will come earlier...