Word: readings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...meeting was called to order; Mr. Goodwin, the President of the Association, in the chair. The Report of Mr. Minot, Secretary, being read and accepted, was followed by that of the Treasurer, Mr. L. W. Clark. He announced that the finances of the club were in excellent condition, and that, after the payment of all amounts due it, there would be a surplus of twenty dollars in the treasury...
...Morse then read his report as chairman of the Boat-house Committee, stating that out of fifty-one rests, forty are now occupied, from the rent of which the club has realized a considerable sum, as it did also from the auction sale of unclaimed boats last spring...
...following amendment to the Constitution was then read and adopted...
...Cornell Era. has an article entitled "A Plea for Literary Culture," in which the author has succeeded in giving some very good advice, as far as it goes, and some suggestions which may prove useful to those who have not read them more than sixty or seventy times before. But what we object to in the article is the very narrow view which the writer takes of culture. Were it not that culture is becoming really the ideal for which to work, this would matter little; but as it is, we must try to keep the ideal as high...
What difficulties the Company had to encounter at Springfield, and with what energy they pushed their scheme forward, must be apparent to all who have read the Old and New, of October, or the Globe for June 9. To the pioneers in this novel scheme the College owes hearty thanks for having kept alive the old prestige of Harvard's independence and indomitable pluck; for it must be remembered that the operators were unassisted by any other college...