Word: falled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year by the facilities offered for the sale of second hand goods. No names were added during the summer, but at the beginning of the academic year a second large accession to the number took place, owing to the entrance of the freshmen and the demand for books and fall supplies, and later for coal, which the society at that time added to its lists...
Towards the middle of October the entrances fall off, and in the latter part of that month, and through the months of November, December, January and February almost cease, showing that all who intend to join have done so before the first of November...
...fall again the accession will be large, and in the middle of next October, and not till then, will the society have regained its full membership...
Besides the direct advantages reaped by the members of the society, all the other members of the university, and, indeed, all the inhabitants of Cambridge, enjoy in common with them, the general fall in the prices of small stationery and like articles. For by the extremely low charges made for such goods as examination books and all kinds of paper, the society has forced down the prices in all other stores, so that instead of the exhorbitant prices which prevailed before the foundation of the society, and which in part led to it, there has actually prevailed among the retail...
...practise on Holmes and Jarvis fields. This is much to be regretted, for class games would be of great value in bringing out new men and in keeping up a live interest in base-ball. Still these ends can in some degree be accomplished by games in the fall, and many of the advantages looked for from class nines will come through forming the second nine...