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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...should recommend that the active members of this society should be undergraduates alone, but I think, at the same time, that it will be well to insure the success of the enterprise by making the members of the Faculty honorary members of the club. A certificate of membership - in short, a shingle - might be issued with an appropriate device; such as a scroll, held out by angels of the "Fallen Order," provided with horns, cloven feet, and all other usual accessories. If a skull and bones were placed at the top of this shingle, I have strong reason to hope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME SUGGESTIONS. | 1/15/1875 | See Source »

...admission slowly added to, if we patiently listen to the announcement that the requirements for a degree will advance first from 33 1/3 per cent to 50, next to 75, finally to 100, - if we do this, we may as well remove to Somerville at once. But the membership of the Ignorance Club I would limit; in my opinion it should be made something to be striven for, and it should consist of not more than ten or fifteen members. The editors of the College papers should, I think, have the right to the first application. This apparent partiality will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME SUGGESTIONS. | 1/15/1875 | See Source »

...being assigned a week in advance. The committee has selected for the next meeting "Le Medecin malgre lui," and will continue to choose, in the broad field of French comedy, the most attractive pieces for reading. In order to have a larger number to choose from, the limit of membership will probably be extended to forty members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLORED RACE. | 12/18/1874 | See Source »

Applicants for membership are requested to call at No. 391 Harvard Street or at No. 19 Holworthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLORED RACE. | 12/18/1874 | See Source »

...friendly games among those who were desirous of joining, and then those should form a club who could win a game from some player of known merit, after being given a certain amount of odds; then after the tournament was over the number of members should be limited, and membership only be offered to those who could win a game from some member of the already established club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LE MENESTREL. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

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