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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Nine takes this opportunity to thank the former members of the Nine (Messrs. Bush, Wells, and McKim) for their very valuable assistance on Saturday. It was a great pleasure to see them on the field again, and we only hope that this may be but the first of many similar occasions...
...pieces. But such is often not the case. One New York house, in particular, seems to do no more than throw the leaves of their books together. I picked up a book in the Library today which, though quite new, already showed signs of disintegration, and guessed at first glance from what house it emanated. On opening the cover, sure enough, the name of "Scribner" appeared on the title-page. And Scribner is not alone. A friend who bought a text-book of the Boston agents of another New York firm found, on taking it home, that several leaves were...
Buying up all the books of a kind within reach and then selling them at an advanced price, a trick with which many of us are unpleasantly familiar, is a very neat plan for increasing the profits at first, but, we venture to suggest, may not pay in the long...
...French Club held its first meeting last Monday evening. The following officers were elected: President, Professor Ferdinand Bocher; Vice-Presidents, F. W. Elwood and W. Lowery; Secretary, G. A. C. Bendelari; Treasurer, L. C. Josephs. The membership will be limited to thirty. This number is not yet completed, and any one wishing to join should hand in his name to one of the above officers before Monday evening, November 10. The club is open to students in every department of the University, and will hold meetings every Monday, at 20 College House...
...accuses them of electing men simply because they possess musical talent, and without regard to their literary ability. We have received many communications, since the paper was started, criticising the action of societies in various ways, and we have uniformly declined to publish them, for these reasons: in the first place, it has generally been very evident that the writer, not being a member of the society which he criticised, knew very little about that which he discussed; and then, in the second place, we regard college societies as strictly private bodies, responsible for their actions only to the Faculty...