Word: uses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...resolved that the stipulation insisting on a man's joining a club for not less than one year be removed, and that every one be allowed the use of the boats from the present date till June 30 on the payment of $ 6.50. This change opens the way for the formation next year of an University Club, - when our debts are paid, - and offers the use of boats and club-house for the remainder of the year at the lowest possible figure...
...July 1, 1877, and the remaining $1,000 before April 1, 1878. However unwise and hasty this agreement may have been, it is now too late to retract it, and in order to insure the payment of the remaining debt, the officers must enforce the rule that nobody shall use any club boats during the ensuing year without a previous payment...
This, however, need not prevent a return to class races if the crews will be satisfied to use the club boats this spring, and defer the purchase of University shells till next year. A class race, even in our club boats, would be far more interesting than club races can ever be, and would insure the entrance of crews better trained than they have been for the two years past, and class feeling would act as a stimulus to greater exertion...
...instructor's corrections and criticisms form the most valuable part of the work in themes, and deserve the most careful attention. If, however, the corrected theme is not returned until the time when the new one is handed in, the student is unable to make full use of these corrections, and the faults of the first theme are repeated in the second for the simple reason that attention has not yet been called to them. This is especially the case in the Sophomore themes, where the writer has had but little previous practice, and has not learned to criticise...
...there is one thing on which every man has certain pet ideas it is an easy-chair. Perhaps, however, long narrow tables and plain cane-seated or wooden arm-chairs would be the most acceptable in recitation-rooms. For lecture-rooms such seats as are now in use at the Botanical Garden are probably most popular...