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...Fall Handicap games of the Columbia A. A., last Friday, five first prizes were won by men who have never before won a prize in athletics at Columbia. As very few of Columbia's crack athletes have left college the prospect for the intercollegiate games is encouraging...
...Auditing committee respectfully submit the following report for the last half of the college year 1888 89. The report includes a partial re-statement of facts for the first half of the year...
...committee have instituted comparisons in the above report between the accounts for last year and those for previous years in order to show, first that the expenditures in 1888-90 were not excessive as compared with those of previous years, and so, secondly, that the debts which have been increased are not due to special extravagance, but to decreased income. The committee, however, are convinced from a careful examination of the accounts that in many instances expenses might have been reduced, and believe that this was an imperative duty in view of the certainty of decreased income that faced some...
...teach my new system of short hand, which is liberally endorsed by the press and expert stenographers as the easiest, briefest and most accurate system of shorthand extant; it can be completely mastered in three months and a speed of 125 words per minute acquired. Pupils write from the first lesson. The first week will be free and I cordially invite all students of the college to visit our school and see what progress can be made even in a week. All who are directly or indirectly interested, please send for catalogue to Hall's Commercial College, 493 Washington...
Last night in Sanders theatre Mr. Nikesch made his first appearance here with the Boston Symphony orchestra. The selections were admirably balanced and contrasted with one another extremely well. Mrs. Corinne Lawson appeared as the soloist of the evening and at once found favor with the audience. Her voice is not phenomenal either on quality or range but very pleasing and expressive. The excellencies of the brass department were well brought out, and the complicated instrumental effects were played with faultless skill by the orchestra...