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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hiring that noble instrument, the marking-machine, which has recently occupied the attention of the undergraduate mind. When not required to grind minus quantities this instrument might prove tractable, even under the direction of some other than the master mind that gave it birth. Its docility, however, must first be ascertained, for, like the gentleman's irrepressible cork-leg, when once started, it might go on forever...
...University Crew was on the river for the first time last Friday...
...University Nine was on Jarvis Field Wednesday, the 5th, for the first time...
...Columbia Spectator will publish, on March 31, a two-page extra, containing a full list of the entries for the first Annual Athletic meeting to be given by the Columbia College Boat-Club, at Gilmore's Garden, on the evenings of April 4 and 5. Price, 3 cents; by mail, 5 cents. Address W. L. Sloan, 21 West 17th Street, New York...
...facts in connection with the recent resignation of two members of the Glee Club seem to be variously understood here in College, it may not be out of place to state them definitely and unmistakably. At the beginning of the first term, last October, the attention of the editors of the Crimson was called, by certain members of the Glee Club, to the anomalous proceedings of the "Arion Quartette" during the previous summer. The criticism with which the editors of your paper saw fit to visit that new musical society did not tend to ameliorate matters between the "Arion Quartette...