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...rank, and from others who have rendered distinguished public services; and, besides, there are a number of ladies who have purchased seats. All such applicants were entitled to consideration in the assignment of seats, and it would obviously have been wholly out of place to force them into the background in order that the undergraduates should enjoy the best seats...
LOST.- A gold clasp pin with B. M. S. on a white background. Finder return to 37 Thayer and receive reward...
LOST.- A gold clasp pin with B. M. S. on a white background. Finder return to 37 Thayer and receive reward...
...club this year has taken great pains to have its exhibit a success. The pictures are hung to much better advantage than in former years, a special background being put up for the purpose. The pictures are all the result of the past summer's work, and show great activity on the part of the club members...
...read nowadays. The plays of Jonson, Webster, Hayward and the rest, are many of them excellent reading, and a slight acquaintance with them will almost always bring with it the desire for greater familiarity. Not only are they thus interesting in themselves, but they form the best background for Shakespeare's works, and it is a shame that we are content to take him without...