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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pierian Sodality is an organization which deserves more support than it is at present receiving. It is the oldest and largest of our musical organizations. Last year it took part in but two concerts, one in December and one in May, and both in Cambridge. With such a long interval of rest it is very difficult to keep alive an interest in the rehearsals. The orchestra is now rehearsing regularly and promises to be quite up to its old standard. The necessary stimulus would be supplied if some of the friends of the organization would procure invitations...
Quartettes from the Yale Gloe and Banjo clubs took part in a concert in Newburg, N. Y., last night...
...brief handed in than there comes a thesis due in Philosophy so and so, and an hour examination in almost every course; in short we are surfeited with work, and so unable to do anything satisfactorily. Of course we cannot object to forensics since they are regularly counted as part of our college work, but a word may be said in reference to theses and hour examinations. Conceive them as best one may, the latter are certainly no more than necessary evils, though they serve a recognized purpose; any feasible plan for their abolition, there fore ought to be welcomed...
...erected, the boards and timbers are cut. It is now too late to change the plans to any extent-that is to the extent of building all the seats on one side as should have been done at first but I see no reason why a part of the benches cannot be placed at the end of the field instead of on the side. Mr. Burnham who has the contract for building the seats assures me that this can readily be done, and I find that it would be no injustice to those who have already bought tickets for seats...
...spring. Since all the old players, with a single exception, will be candidates next year, we may hope for a much stronger showing in 1890. The team will probably be no longer handicapped by lack of grounds for practice, as there is a good prospect of their obtain part of the college athletic fields next spring. The lack of a suitable place for playing has always been a serious drawback to the eleven, and has checked new men from coming out. With steady practice on good grounds, many old players and the large number of new candidates to draw from...