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...German marking-machine proved a grand success in Pol. Econ. 2, and entitles the inventor to be ranked among the greatest philanthropists...
Full many a Fresh with greatest cheek e'er seen The class of '83 within its depths doth bear, Full many a dollar have they, bright and pure and clean, Which neither the Ball Club nor the Boat Club nor the Junior Prom. Com. nor the Courant nor the Record nor the Lit. nor the News nor anything under heaven yet discovered, can from their pockets tear. - Courant...
...cannot too heartily approve the suggestion that the $200,000 of Mr. Hastings's bequest, that the College is required to expend upon a building, be devoted to one for the Fine Arts Department. This department, which is steadily increasing in importance, has hitherto been placed at the greatest disadvantage, as regards lecture-rooms and appliances. While this state of things is to be greatly improved when Sever is finished, an opportunity seems now to be offered for providing an excellent building for the collections of pictures, casts, models, &c., which the College should have. These collections cannot be obtained...
...greatest difficulty in the way of establishing here a club like the Union is, of course, the opposition of existing societies. But such a club might exist without interfering in the least with the two or three old societies that no one wishes to see injured, or with the two smaller ones, of which the counterparts are to be found at Oxford as well. The former are essentially class societies, and, as such, will always be strong; the latter have a limited membership, confined to the most popular men in college; none of them would clash with a club like...
Third, That the championship shall be awarded to the club having the largest percentage of games won, or, in case of a tie, to the club having the greatest number of games won, or, in case of a still further tie, to the club having the greatest number of series...