Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Glee Club Concert tonight in Sanders is perhaps the most available and one of the most fitting forms of public entertainment which could have been devised. There will doubtless be a large number of graduates present in addition to the visitors who will already have reached Cambridge. The affair can hardly fail, therefore, to be thoroughly successful in point of numbers, and it is hoped to make out of it a very informal and pleasant evening...
Since the citizens of Cambridge do not seem to acquiesce in designating their office as Cambridge A, as distinguished from that of Cambridgeport, which was to be known as Cambridge B, the affair is practically ended...
...George W. Beavers, the head of the Bureau of Salaries and Allowances, has informed Col. H. A. Thomas, postmaster of the Boston District, that no other option will be offered them and the offices will have to be known by their present names. The affair would evidently have been ended some time ago if Col Thomas had realized that there is only a small part of Cambridgeport which cares about changing the name...
...have already shown, in a former issue, that a club which is so to speak independent, without any claim upon the support and recognition of a class, must necessarily be a personal affair, far weaker than one which can be labelled with the class name, and can be presented to the class as a responsibility not to be escaped. Another practical advantage of such an organization would be, that any man could join by merely signing his name, and thus avoid running the gauntlet of a trial debate followed by an election...
...Misses Bentley's Telescope" the hero is engaged in preserving "a pleasing amatory equilibrism" at home, while developing a genuine love affair abroad. The device by which the author reaches his climaxes is of course farcial, but his climaxes are none the less climaxes, and the story moves toward them with amusing and unhalting life and go. Verses, College Kodaks, a short sketch by G. H. Scull and couple of forceful editorials pointing out to Freshmen "that the broad opportunties for good fellowship with the solid good men of their class cannot be taken advatage of too early, and that...