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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fountain holder for $1.25. Members who bought Erckman Chatrian's Histoire d'un Payson in 4 vols., may return the last three vols. for which $1.95 will be refunded. The first volume will be furnished hereafter at 70 cents. The furniture rooms will be closed at the end of this week...
...cannot help changing from year to year from the very fact that competition is constantly urging it forward. One party in trying to surpass the other will find some new method, some weak point in its adversaries' tactics, which, properly made use of, will gain for it the desired end. It is precisely the same in any other matter where competition takes a part, whether we confine ourselves to athletics or not. And our game of foot-ball is not an exception. The time is so short for actual training; the matches so few in the year, that...
...want to force anybody to hear tedious lectures; I've cut many a lecture myself, and know well enough that hard reading and industry in his own room are in the end more important, perhaps, to a student than hearing university courses. But I cannot persuade myself that the industry is to be found in the case of those who attend no lectures the first two or four semesters, and calculate from the very be ginning on the ability of a paid "coach" to cram them up for the examination. The number of these men, however, is very large - among...
Candidates for the university and freshman lacrosse teams are requested to meet on the west end of Jarvis this afternoon...
...ranks of Science that a word or two concerning it may be of interest. It is now a little over half a century old, and has had among its members such a noted man as Professor Agassiz, Professor Shaler and Professor Gray. It occupies handsome rooms in the eastern end of Massachusetts Hall, where a growing collection of minerals, reptilia and birds; and a valuable library which contains an almost priceless edition of Auduboni's birds. The society meets fortnightly for the discussion of congenial topics and is in a prosperous condition. It has given in the past several lectures...