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Notice has been given by the bursar that all re-engagements of rooms for next year must be made by April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/23/1882 | See Source »

Pedagogy. Special subject: "The Training of the Ear." Mr. G. Stanley Hall. Wesleyan Hall, Boston, 10.30 A. M. Tickets, at $2, for the course may be obtained of Allen Danforth, bursar, Cambridge, or of Lee & Shepard, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BULLETIN. | 3/4/1882 | See Source »

...English trade journal gives the following account of a curious New Year's custom which is annually observed at Queen's College, Oxford: "After a dinner given to people indirectly connected with the college, the senior bursar delivers to each guest a needle furnished with a length of silk, with the injunction, 'Take this and be thrifty, and begin the new year with industry.' Contrary to a common belief, this is not the condition of a tenure, nor does any advantage accrue to the institution by its observance. There is nothing particular about the needles either. To be precise, they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 2/8/1882 | See Source »

...rumored that Memorial Hall "statement" will be made out as soon as the bursar has time and the auditor has learned to add up figures. We wonder what the price of board is for January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/1/1882 | See Source »

...literally to wade through them to get to our editorial desk. And what a variety; enough to put the rats of Hamlin to shame; some, aggressive and pungent, others caustic and malicious, others again, whining and plaintive; one calls for the auditor's report, another for the bursar's; one asks for an expert, and another wants new directors. One writer tells us that, as we had had so much about Memorial, we need not insert his communication unless we wanted to. To this man we must confess ourselves infinitely obliged; really, we had never thought of such a thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1882 | See Source »

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