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...mortgage on the boats and oars belonging to the four clubs, either this spring or next autumn. It would be very poor policy, besides, if he should foreclose, for he could not get enough money from the boats to cover his loss. Another interesting fact which the Advocate seems to have overlooked is, that Mr. Blakie has a lease of the club boat-house of the Corporation, and that this lease will not expire until a year from next October. If he should sell the boats he would still have the rent to pay on an estate that was bringing...
...award of the prizes. We would not for a moment question either the undoubted merits of the successful competitors, or the wishes of the gentlemen who acted as judges to do their best in a very difficult and, to some of them apparently, a novel position. But it does seem to us that power to sway an audience is one of the chief requisites of good speaking, and it is surely strange that neither of the three speakers whom the audience would have placed as high, if not higher, than any others, was mentioned in the award. Either there...
...status of the "House clubs" for next year, although on a very uncertain basis, does not seem to warrant the discouraging article in the Advocate of last week. We should think that Mr. Blakie would hardly foreclose this spring, if there was a reasonable chance of getting the rest of his money in the autumn ; and the coming of the guileless Freshman, like the first bird of spring, may be a forerunner of better times for the House Clubs. With this in view, and the expenditure of a little more energy on the part of the club secretaries, we think...
...plan is this - Don't you think, Mr. Editor, it would work? Of course examinations cannot be arranged so as to please every one; but to me it seems very unjust that some men should have so much less time to prepare them than others have. I know of one case (my own) where the poor fellow has five exams in three days, and the first three days of the first week. Now my cousin has five examinations in three weeks, with plenty of time to prepare them, and time to go to the theatre...
Freedom of action does not seem to be allowed at Rutgers, to judge from the Targum's indignation at a "certain secret society" whose members have all refused to renew their subscriptions to that estimable contemporary of ours. Their action is called "almost incredible," "a boyish trick," "an exceedingly selfish action," and various other pretty names. The reason of the withdrawal, according to the Targum, is "disappointment at the non-election of a friend." We warn all our subscribers, that as soon as one of them withdraws, we shall take a leaf out of the Targum's book...