Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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COMPLAINT has been frequent in the past, and is still repeated, because students are not allowed to use certain books in the Library. We hear the aggrieved ones talking about an index expurgatorius, about treating the students as school-boys, and about the true purpose of the Library. Now, whatever cause for complaint there may have been formerly, there seems to be little at present. There are, as naturally there must be, some books in the Library that students should be restricted from using. There are rare copies that must be kept from all risk of loss, and costly bindings...
...which the scholarship funds are at present administered. It is claimed, for instance, that many are allowed to compete for scholarships to whom they are no more of a necessity than to others who are practically excluded. Protests against the present usage have been made in past years, but without success. Owing to the conditions under which nearly all the scholarships have been left, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to throw them open to free competition. All that can be done is to influence future founders of scholarships, and this point must be kept in view by those...
ATHLETICS.There have been several exceedingly good walking and running races over the track at the Mechanics' Fair Building during the past few weeks, but as they have been fully reported in the daily papers it is unnecessary to summarize them here. We were glad to see Mr. Thacher enter and start in the mile run, and are sorry that he did not get better than third, - although it was an exceedingly good third...
...CERTAIN Freshman who has been in the habit of spending the Sabbath in the bosom of his family during the past half-year, has aroused the admiration of his native town by appearing at church with a smoking cap and a cane...
...evenings, Feb. 13, March 13, April 10, 1879, by the New York Philharmonic Club, Mr. Richard Arnold, Leader. The programmes will be selected from the Chamber Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and other great masters. The Concerts will begin at a quarter before eight, and end before half past nine o'clock. A few tickets, at $ 300 for the Course, may still be obtained at Sever...