Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subject for the first debate in English 6 is as follows: "Is it desirable that the suffrage should be limited in the United States?" Affirmative: Andrews, Smith, Norton: Negative: Lester, Price, Hale. The debate will take place on Thursday, October 16, and visitors will be admitted...
...told that this number helps to reduce the cost of living, there are few of us who would not prefer to pay the few cents' difference per week, to incur the actual discomfort. The association must remember that, two or three years ago, a general exodus took place from Memorial when an attempt was made to impose inferior food upon the members; and it is possible that the present falsely economical policy may meet with similar failure. It is uncomfortable to be packed into the horse-cars as we sometimes are obliged to be, but we must protest against this...
DEAR SIR, - The Yale University Boat Club do hereby challenge you, the Harvard University Boat Club, to an eight oared, four-mile race, straight away with coxswains, the time and place to be hereafter agreed upon...
...WISH to give two reasons why the attempt to force us to employ the janitors as scouts seems to me wholly unjustifiable. One would think that the reasons would be apparent to any honest and fair-minded man. In the first place, this move of the Bursar's is nothing more than an attempt, which might almost be called underhanded, to get from the students more money to pay the current college expenses than is given by the regular stated college fees. It is apparent enough that the janitors, regular college employees, are underpaid with the understanding that they shall...
...only alteration in the Junior crew is Otis, 5, in the place of C. H. W. Foster, and Hammond has taken Atkinson's place at bow, the latter going to 3. Although lighter than the Seniors, they row better together, and at this time the advantage seems to be slightly in their favor. The trifling difference, however, may easily be overcome in the course of the next fortnight. Following is the crew...