Word: items
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Seeing an account in yesterday's CRIMSON that the Boat Club was $575 in debt last year, though reported free of debt, I think it only just to the college to explain how such an error could be made. The first item of $206 was for a Waters shell which the club last year deemed useless. As the boat did not fulfil Mr. Waters' guarantee, the club sent it back to him and refused to pay the above amount. The club this year voted to receive the boat back after he had extensively altered it and paid...
...supporters. But last Monday the Princeton men left Cambridge immediately after the game so that there was no occasion for a serenade, and considering the result of the game, no occasion for joyful demonstration. Furthermore the evening was damp and disagreeable, sufficient excuse in itself for not singing. An item in yesterday morning's CRIMSON states that ".several parties of ladies and gentlemen waited in the yard in the rain for half an hour or more for the Glee Club to sing." They must have been "daft" if they expected us to pipe our tuneful bags under the protection...
...gown. Though I am not an advocate of Anglomania, I trust that the spirit of the college is too liberal to refuse to wear an appropriate dress simply because it is English. The only objection is the expense, which would not be a very large item; besides, gowns could probably be hired at reasonable rates from some enterprising tailor...
...American institutions. The gowns in question would never, in all probability, be be brought into requisition after graduation. Here, then, is an extra expense from which no adequate return can be derived. The expenses of graduation are heavy enough now without adding to the list this seemingly unnecessary item. Then, again, we all know the state of air in Sanders during the exercises is such as to render it expedient that the audience be lightly clad, and not be smothered in a mass of frills and ruffles. The cap itself adds no little warmth to the body. For this reason...
...item in the Advocate, to the effect that Mr. C. A. Cushman '87 would manage the senior parties this year, is incorrect...