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...been one of great and constantly increasing prosperity and usefulness, not only in respect to the plays it produces annually, but especially in the opportunities it gives those interested in the French language and in French affairs to meet and converse under pleasant social conditions. Its finances are sound, its membership large, and its members devoted. Its present government desires to extend its benefits to all who can appreciate them, and invites every student who cares for its objects to present himself for membership. The coming meeting will be open to the University, and any man who wishes...
...want to call the attention of the senior class to the open letter on the subject of changing the class song. Ninety-two will have the chance of making several class day reforms; but no one of them seems more sound and sensible than that which our correspondent proposes. The defects of the old custom and the arguments for the new are so obvious as to need no word from us other than to call attention again to the points which our correspondent has so strongly set forth. Of course the need of a chorister still remains unchanged...
...song before we were huddled together, hot and excited, to flounder through it at sight. Moreover, even were the difficulty overcome - even if every senior had learned his part and sang - there are two reasons why the result would be ineffective. In the first place, the volume of sound - in the open air with a full brass band to contend against - could never be more than respectable, never impressive. It never has been even respectable, in point of fact. And secondly the moment is one for retrospect and remembrance; it is the last time that a class, as a college...
...that we make too much of; because it is used for new words in the morning, at Sanders Theatre, there is no reason why it should not be used again, to the familiar words, in the afternoon. Moreover, it is a tune that gains peculiarly by added volume of sound. As a matter of course, not only the seniors would sing it, but the other classes and the graduates would rise and join in. This would make a chorus of a thousand voices As anyone knows who attended the under-graduate exercises at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary...
...York, Dec. 24, 1890. - (1) Twenty years of stringent protection have causeda decline in agriculture; J. D. Warner's "The McKinley Fraud on the Farmer." - (2) Her foreign commerce has been greatly diminished. - (3) Great industries have been ruined through duties on raw materials. - (b) Doctrine on silver question sound; Cleveland's letter on silver question; Gorman's speech, Herald, Oct 7, '91; Russell's letter approving Cleveland's policy. - (c) No reduction at present in internal revenue taxes. - (d) Civil service promoted. - (e) Public land grants only to actual settlers...