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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sessions are to be conducted under the rules of Congress, and consequently very good training and practice in parliamentary business will be acquired by the members. Such an organization as this, where bills are brought in, and motions to amend, to lay on the table, to put the previous question, etc., and all the tactics of partisan warfare are used, possess a great advantage over the ordinary debating society in their sharp contest of wits, and this in the practical experience, which such a vigorous contest produces. The experiment of holding a mock congress has been successful in several American...
...necessary expenditures of a class crew are an amount varying from year to year. It depends on the serviceableness of the shell used the previous year, and upon the number of weeks the crew remains at a training table. This year the expenses of all the class crews will be lessened, not only by the amount formerly paid for a coach, but also by a decrease in the bill for a training table. In former years, when all the crews had but one coach, some of them had to row at so late an hour as to be unable...
...intentionally given nothing have estimated, it is likely, the benefit which the society will be to them, and will not be induced to subscribe from unwillingness that the society should go to pieces. It is only from new members that substantial aid can be expected, (apart from the increase previous subscriptions). Of new members, a considerable number must join the society. It is the duty of every man, therefore, who has not joined, to consider at once whether the advantages of membership will not recompense him for his entrance fee. A man who will lose more than $1.50, and interest...
...local tradesmen who had formerly kept prices up to a most unfair standard by their concerted action, were compelled to make immediate reductions. In fact, the leading book-sellers advertised the works required by students at a drop of nearly 30 per cent. from the prices demanded the year previous to the formation of the society. Such a result as this naturally was properly appreciated by the students, and they have entered so thoroughly into the spirit of the reform that its success is now assured. After seeing what has been accomplished by a society founded in imitation to that...
...their banners of homage, in the shape of the black velvet flag with skull and crossbones of the "meds.," the crimson and gold ensign of the embryo "surveyors and engineers" and a long streamer with "Au Revoir" inscribed upon it. They further, in response to some who, on a previous occasion, had taken them to task, hung out two gigantic prescriptions, in which a liberal quantity of honey and syrup were suggested as medicine for the Telegraph and Argus, and a wholesale dose of arsenic and strychnine as a settler for the Age. They held their saturnalia between the acts...