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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...theatrical entertainments in aid of the University Boat Club will be given by members of the Junior Class at Horticultural Hall on Friday evening, Dec. 17, at 8 o'clock, and on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 18, at 2 1/2. The burlesque, entitled "Ill-treated Il Trovatore," will be given at both performances. Tickets, $1.00, can be obtained of Mr. A. C. Tower, H'y 16, or of Mr. A. M. Sherwood, M. 17. All persons desiring tickets are requested to make application at once, as no tickets will be sold at the door...
DESPITE the fact that the prevailing times are known as hard, and that the students have been solicited for contributions in aid of various objects to such an extent that they now instinctively shudder when they see approaching them one of those solicitors who with eager eye and hungry look stalk abroad seeking whom they may devour, still, in the face of these facts, this article is written for the purpose of setting forth another object which will demand pecuniary aid from the students, but which has one advantage over previous one namely, that the contributors have...
...project, will fail to contribute what they otherwise would have had they been requested to do so while in college. Also students, as a rule, are better able to subscribe while in college than they are for several years after graduation; and if a call for money to aid an object of this kind is to be made upon a class in college, it ought certainly to be made in the Junior rather than the Senior year, when the expenses of a student are heavier than at any other time...
...will give this plan of erecting a class window their careful consideration, and if they arrive at a favorable conclusion concerning it, will not only evince their interest in the matter by taking the preliminary steps necessary for future action, but will also show their readiness to aid the work in a more substantial manner...
...would be superfluous. It is only necessary to say that its usefulness is much increased in this new edition. The book now seems to be so complete as to meet every requirement in its way. Many a dispute has been settled and many an author studied heretofore, with its aid. The present edition will therefore meet with a welcome reception, having been much enlarged by additions from many authors before unrepresented as well as from those well known in connection with former editions. As many as three hundred lines have been added to the quotations from Shakespeare alone...