Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Senior Class Theatricals will take place on the evenings of December 12 and 13 and on the afternoon of December 14, at Union Hall, Boylston Street, Boston. There will be two changes of programme in the three performances. The Glee Club have kindly consented to sing between the acts on each evening...
...crew, and, in case we are successful, with other colleges that are willing to race in eights. On the other hand, it is neither fair nor reasonable that we should travel all over the Western and Middle States for the sake of meeting a rival. New London is the place for these races, not Owasco Lake nor Harlem River. If Columbia and Cornell are determined to row over their favorite courses, the College will certainly decline accepting such conditions, which would seriously interfere with the Putney regatta. It is too early to prophesy what our crew will accomplish, but they...
...were glad to see an editorial in the last Advocate asking for a course of lectures in Sanders Theatre, to take the place of the series of concerts which it has been found impossible to give. The Natural History Society will, as usual, give a course of lectures, but the subjects are more or less of a scientific nature. It seems to us that great advantage could be derived from some general course, given principally by our own professors on subjects connected with their special departments. Such a course has just been arranged at Yale by the Linonia Society...
...Argus complains of the "undignified scramble" which takes place in the chapel every morning as soon as "Amen" is pronounced from the pulpit. We were not surprised to hear of such a deplorable state of things at Yale, but Wesleyan ought to be able to set a better example...
...challenge from Cornell was read, and all present favored accepting it providing they would row at New Haven, as it would be impossible for us to row at Owasco Lake should we go to England; moreover, it is the custom for the challenged party to have the choice of place...