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...College Library has received from Mrs. Edward Brandegee of Brookline the largest collection of books which has been presented since the Library's foundation. The collection is to be known as the Weld Memorial, in memory of Mrs. Brandegee's grandfather, William Fletcher Weld, the donor of Weld Hall. The collection, consisting of 11,880 volumes, is from the library of Richard H. Bowie of Philadelphia. There is no room in Gore Hall at present for such a great number of books, and they are stored temporarily in the basement of one of the College dormitories...
...annual dividend of the Co-operative Society, amounting to 8 per cent., will be paid at the Co-operative office on this and succeeding mornings, between 9 and 12 o'clock. It will be the largest ever paid by the society, the profits being nearly $15,000, and the greatest individual amount $141. Last year's membership cards must be presented in order to obtain payment...
...kept from doing so by the men who fail to show up at the proper time on days of games. Another important point is that this loss of ushers assigned to definite sections causes considerable delay in people getting to their seats. The crowd on Saturday will be the largest of the season, and consequently the most difficult to handle; and I trust that all the ushers who are assigned places will for once at least not neglect their duty. W. G. WENDELL...
...Carlisle and Dartmouth games. There was an average of sixteen cuts in the ten courses held at twelve o'clock on the day of the Indian game, and an average of almost twenty-three cuts on the day of the Dartmouth game. In one course, and not the largest course in College by any means, no less than eighty men cut before the Dartmouth game. This is no record to boast of from the standpoint of undergraduate zeal in things intellectual and it is to be hoped that a better record will be made this year. The Council is right...
...Seniors will play the Juniors six matches and the Sophomores will play the Freshmen. The two teams that win the largest number of matches will meet Tuesday at 2 o'clock, when the tournament will be completed...