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...ladies, but also in Dr. Sargent's private gymnasium, which has been open to them. The needs of the Annex are necessarily many, but among the most noticeable is that of larger class rooms and plenty of money, The society having the Annex in charge makes special endeavors to afford its highest instruction even to small classes, giving it, in special cases, to a single pupil, because it wishes to invite this class of students to Cambridge, and because the very being of the movement is based on the desire of its founders to afford a grade of instruction...
...artistic. The belief is certainly false. The money and trouble spent by college men on their rooms is no small sum. Some spend thousands in this way, some hundreds, some fifties, and some only tens; but almost every man, we may be sure, spends all that he can afford. Of course those men who la out small fortunes in the furnishing and decorating of their rooms, do not labor in vain. Rooms of greater luxury and elegance are not to be found anywhere, could not be wished for. Such rooms are well worth seeing. and are pretty sure to display...
...doubt be an audience assembled which in numbers and enthusiasm will equal any the Union ever brought together. As the college is so nearly divided in numbers on its preference for president, it is but fair to suppose that the same division exists in ability and brains, Tonight will afford an excellent opportunity for judging of the truth of this supposition...
...communication upon the tennis courts of the college, which we print this morning contains a suggestion which it would be well to heed. All tennis players know how unsatisfactory a court is for practice, which is neither turf nor gravel. If the association could only afford to lay out clay courts, the results would undoubtedly be perfectly satisfactory. As it is, the best thing that can be done is to remove the ragged tufts of grass, and make the courts over into smooth earthen floors...
...what, judging from the late canvass of the college, should prove a most highly instructing review of the political outlook. Every student should feel it incumbent upon him to attend and lend his voice to a popular decision. We who are the future citizens of the country can well afford a preliminary study of the present political methods. The close vote of the college should provoke a determined stand on both sides. The purpose of the Union is highly practical and deserves the enthusiastic support of the entire university. The topic for preliminary discussion is well chosen and peculiarly applicable...