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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...down the two last, as, if there is anything that the head of the family abominates, it is after-theatre suppers and billiard-halls. As for the rest of the money, I don't know where it's gone. You don't suppose I go round with a little book in my pocket, and every time I treat a fellow to Vichy, put down 'Vichy (treat to Jack) 10 cts.' I am not so miserly as that...
THIS work is complete. It is useful as a reference book, and even interesting reading. Harvard has not lately taken great interest in secret fraternities, but the large number of these societies at other colleges must make Mr. Baird's work valuable to them. There are at present, in American colleges, forty-five general fraternities, thirteen local fraternities, and seven ladies' societies. Among the best-known societies, the Alpha Delta Phi has twenty-three chapters, and among its members are Rev. Phillips Brooks, Prof. James Russell Lowell, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and President Eliot; the Psi Upsilon has seventeen chapters...
...University should offer a course for those who intend to devote their life to business, a course that should include instruction in practical banking, book-keeping, and the principles of commerce, a great many students would be able to prepare for their future career. And such a course need not interfere with a man's taking other electives of a less practical nature, or with his "general culture...
...system of Reserved Books at the Library is such an admirable one, that it is with much regret that we learn that some of the students have abused it. In one of the History courses one of the most necessary books has been secretly taken away and kept out for several days, and this practice has been renewed from time to time. Another cause of complaint, less culpable than the former, but still very annoying, is the manner in which students leave the reserved books lying around in the different alcoves, instead of returning them to their proper shelves...
...stamped and posted by the club, while those placed in the box for the town are delivered once an hour, - a great convenience where distances are so great as between Christ Church and Keble, for instance. On a table at the end of the room is a "complaint-book," in which members may write any complaint or any suggestion for the management of the club, to which the president makes reply on the opposite page. Beyond the newspaper reading-room is the debating-hall, which was greatly enlarged last summer. A large number of the men who go to Oxford...