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...Athletic Association, desiring to promote the interest in athletics, have decided to adopt for this year the plan of class meetings, to conclude with a championship meeting, thereby bringing together the best men in the University for each event...
...descriptions heretofore given of the plan which the President and Fellows have suggested for establishing a savings-fund are partially incorrect. In the first place, it is not an "Annuity" system. Nor does the proposed plan contemplate a reduction in the salaries of those who adopt it. So far as can be ascertained, the substance of what the Corporation wish to do is this: if each officer or instructor in the University will set aside five per cent of his salary for investment, the Corporation will add five per cent and put this sum out at compound interest, thus forming...
...last Friday for the purpose of forming a Chess Club. The following officers were elected: President, W. S. Andrews, '80; Vice-President, H. I. Thomsen, '81; Secretary, J. A. C. Wright, '81; Treasurer, H. M. Hubbard, '82. The club intend to procure and furnish a room. A meeting to adopt constitution and transact other business will be held Thursday. The managing committee of the American Chess Congress have written, urging that the club be represented at the National Congress to be held in New York this winter. It is hoped the club will be able to send a representative. Those...
Reporter. Shocking blunder! But, sir, how do you propose to carry on your elective, and what system of marks shall you adopt? I have here a marking-machine that has been employed with great success. It is warranted to turn out minus quantities, and to never give above seventy...
...others, but it might be modified so as to meet the exigency. As to the remaining officers, it makes no difference who fill the positions of president and secretary, because those offices are mere empty honors. If, then, the members of '83 are wise, they will adopt some such plan as that suggested; since, by instituting the change from the present lottery-like procedure to one more rational, they will place all succeeding classes under obligation to them...