Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...closing of the H. U. B. C. Boat-House to all undergraduates, except members of the Club, has been carried out, as was proposed some time ago, and of which notice was given in the College papers. The Executive Committee have found it impossible to maintain order in the Boat-House, and to pay the necessary expenses, without taking this action. The necessary expenses a year are: Four hundred dollars for rent, about eighty dollars for water, and fifty dollars for janitor's work. Any member of the University can become a member...
...students, however well they may have worked during the term, are obliged to do a great deal of "grinding" for the Annuals, it is very important that the dates of the different examinations should be fixed as early as possible, in order that students may know just how much time they will have to spend on each subject after the recitations have been suspended. In case two or more examinations are fixed for successive days, it is necessary that it should be known some time beforehand, in order that students may study up such subjects before the close of recitations...
...more exciting. The danger of fouling can be entirely done away with by having two stake-boats instead of one, and by having the races rowed in heats. The rowing also might be made better by informing the captains of the time of the race a week beforehand, in order that the crews might have a little practice together...
...work and responsibility that it is absolutely necessary that the right man be chosen for the place. There must be no mistakes this year in the management of the race. The demands that have been made of the city of Springfield are reasonable. It is simply asked to keep order and protect spectators, and to make an expenditure of money which is very small. On general principles, we are opposed to any sort of connection between the general public and the race. It is purely a college affair, with which the public should have but a passive interest. During...
...Columbia, in the exhibitions given by the "Philolexism," a literary society, the orators and members appear in caps and gowns, and the effect is most charming. A great many of the poorer, that is to say, the more indigent, students, are compelled to go to a great expense in order to procure dress-suits, - sometimes much greater than they can afford. The caps and gowns would not cost more than ten dollars, and would be a delightful memento, after graduation, of one of the most memorable, perhaps the most memorable, occasion of college life...