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Oakland to Stead: Decrease [propeller'] revolutions per minute to seventeen hundred, and increase the manifold pressure...
Richard W. Beurtley, ex-40, has successfully completely an all-water trip from Darien, Connecticut, to Daytona Beach, Florida, in a seventeen feet canoe of unknown vintage...
...Seventeen months later, the publisher was as "sick of his writings as I am of him." But before he was fired Poe had skyrocketed the circulation from 600 to 5,500, and the Messenger had become the most famed Southern literary magazine of all time. With such famed foreign contributors as Longfellow, Thackeray, John Quincy Adams, it survived until June 1864. (By that time the subscription price had jumped from $5 to $15 a year, Confederate money.) But when its printers were called to defend Richmond, the Southern Literary Messenger suspended publication...
Examination of this document reveals that among the seventeen members there must be "at least one representative from each of the House units, and two members from the non-House group, one of whom must be a commuter." The inference is that the other non-House man will not be a commuter, but a non-House resident. However, inasmuch as the undergraduates living in the Varsity Club are included in the non-House category, it is obvious that at election time a man from this small group will be chosen to represent all the resident non-House students. This...
...there shall be on the Council one non-House man with no regular eating place, or if the lining-hall privilege is extended, it should require the presence of a non-House, non-club man. This change can be readily effected with the assent of two-thirds of the seventeen members, and once accomplished, it will do much to make the Council more representative...