Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which was to furnish a little amusement for the college. At last our mistake is acknowledged and a change inaugurated. Fall class races are now to be revived with the expectation that they will develope new material. Some of the crews have already been rowing more than a fortnight so that a good, honest race may be expected. The freshmen, of course, must necessarily labor under a great disadvantage, but though their chance of winning is small they may show their worth by rowing a plucky race. To make the affair a success, the college must do its part...
...under the personal supervision of Capt. Henshaw. As soon as the weather permits, the work will be transferred to the field, where a much more adequate idea of the men's abilities can be obtained. It is expected that the weather will admit of out-door practice in a fortnight...
...School of Geology will open on July 10th, at the Agassiz Museum in Cambridge, where a fortnight will be spent in introductory work, and in daily excursions. The remainder of the six weeks' course will be divided between points in Rhode Island, the lower Connecticut Valley and the Catskill Mountains. For particulars in regard to excursions see the special circular on the School of Geology...
...began this year with a muster roll of three men and now that the number has increased to over thirty, many rooms are decorated with the crimson silk burgees bearing the gold circle and shield with a black H-the club signal. The club meets socially once a fortnight, discusses business, votes on any names brought up by the executive committee, and enjoys itself generally. The great draw-back to many has heretofore been the expense of keeping a canoe at the boat-house, but the club has made an arrangement by which one of the rooms of the boat...
...society or club should be formed to create an interest in German literature, and they felt that their intentions would be best carried out by the formation of a club which, in addition to its literary side, should also have a social element. Such is the Dentscher Verein. Every fortnight there is a meeting of the society, and on each occasion a paper on some literary subject is real by one of the members. Political matters have been labored up to the present time, and all discussions have been limited to men like Goethe and Faust in preference to Bismark...