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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...absence of real social life and social amusements. This year's junior class has, however, not been deterred by this rather poor precedent from renewing the venture. They decided to hold a Christmas ball in aid of the 'varsity crew and obtained permission from the faculty to use the library tomorrow night for their ball. No trouble has been spared and everything augurs a great success; the juniors hope to establish an excellent precedent and a prominent feature of Columbia's social life. The library will be decorated with Columbia trophies and with greens, and the law school rooms will...
...three weeks, the vacation having been increased a week to make up for the decrease in the Thanksgiving recess. The change was made this year for the first time, particularly in the interest of western men who are unable to put the extra days at Thanksgiving time to any use...
...twenty years the Hasty Pudding Club had the use of the upper rooms in the north end of the building for its library and meetings, and the Natural History Society had also its room there for some time...
...Woman suffrage is inexpedient. (a) The great majority of women do not desire suffrage. (b) The class of women who would make use of it would, as a rule, belong to the ignorant and degraded classes in large cities.- New Englander, 1884, p. 206-7. (c) The influence of the Roman Catholic Church would be vastly increased.- Forum IV, 14-15. (d) It would add 2,300,000 illiterate and ill-qualified voters to the 1,900,000 already existing...
...Library in Gore Hall is open Sundays during term time from 1 till sunset for the use of members of the University only...