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...Hall. Regarded from the standpoint of photography, the various portions of the exhibition are of unequal merit. The fine mountain-work of Sella and of Jackson rather casts into the shade the remainder of the collection. Yet the subjects of all the photographs are so interesting, that all will repay long and careful study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 3/28/1896 | See Source »

There is only one way in which new students can repay the college authorities for the trouble taken on their behalf, and that is by profiting by it. The opportunity given to settle all doubtful questions should not be wasted. None like it will come again to Ninety-nine. The next few days are theirs and they must make the most of them if they would do the fair thing by the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/24/1895 | See Source »

...instance, would do away with the difficult distinctions between A and B and between C and D. When first adopted, it would of course be some what difficult of adjustment to the present conditions which determine the award of degrees with distinction; but in operation it would more than repay for any temporary disturbance it might cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/22/1895 | See Source »

...reforms and on February 16, 1861, the decree was promulgated. It provided that the peasants were to have all the rights of free cultivators; nobles were to give each peasant between twenty and thirty acres of land, and the government was to remunerate the nobles. The peasants were to repay the government by equal annual instalments for forty-nine years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Personal Servitude in Russia. | 3/2/1895 | See Source »

This evening the chance is given to aid in relieving the financial embarrassment of the Union and at the same time to get considerable enjoyment. The concert by the Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs will more than repay for the low price of the admission ticket, and what is pleasure to the purchaser will be much needed profit to the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1895 | See Source »

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