Word: performances
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...under very promising auspices, and for a short time it lead a humble but useful career. By placing bulletins upon University, announcing the existence of good ice on Fresh Pond or Glacialis, the club rendered service to the students. We venture to make the suggestion that the club again perform this duty...
...energetic central board would seem to be a self-evident proposition. The point we would make against the corporation as now constituted is not that it contains too many ministers, or that not enough denominations are represented in it, but that it is inefficient; that it fails both to perform the duties developing upon it by law and to provide any substitutes to perform them...
...itself bad enough, and might be enlarged upon to a much greater extent, but that there is another and a more important side to the question. This other side is, perhaps, rather a matter of opinion as to expediency than anything else. If our modern Joshua is to perform his great act every morning, would it not be just as easy for him to do it twenty minutes earlier? It is anything but conducive to good digestion and good temper to eat one's breakfast hurriedly, under the impression that the hour of chapel is upon us, and then when...
...prevails in some of the colleges. Probably, certificates of successful examination of young women in the studies required for admission into the university will be given to applicants on the payment of a stipulated fee. Such successful applicants may be permitted to attend certain courses of lectures, and to perform laboratory work under prescribed conditions. Special encouragement will be given to parties desiring to furnish funds for the establishment of an 'Annex,' similar to the Harvard 'Annex,' in which young women may pursue courses of study, differing, in some respects, from that prescribed for the young...
...also to add their color to the bunch of ribbons which flaunt themselves at the further extremity. Previous to its appearance on class day, the 'Squeezer' is exhibited to the class for which it is intended, and the exhibition is one in which the old relic is made to perform a part, one of the lemons flavoring the punch drank upon the occasion being squeezed in it by every member of the receiving class...