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...debt I have paid, according to the following accounts $2080.94. In handing over the accounts of the present treasurer. I have bills against us to the amount of $1737.54. Toward the payment of these bills I have in cash $160.11 and, in bills receivable, all of which I consider certain of being paid $308.42, making my excess of liabilities over assets $1269.01. From this it can be seen that I have reduced the debt of the Boat Club $350, in round numbers. Considering that the Hasty Pudding theatricals yielded exactly $404 less than they did last year, my accounts show...
...impression seems to be slowly gaining ground among the students that the proposed fall class races were too hastily determined upon, and that action was taken in the matter before it had been sufficiently discussed in all its bearing. Certain remarks let fall by those interested in foot-ball would seem to indicate that the scheme can hardly hope to meet with very hearty support from that quarter, while some of the men who are prominent in rowing affairs fail to exhibit any very enthusiastic appreciation of the new departure. The fact is that many valuable men will be kept...
...been of more practical value than any course in the college curriculum. In the past the great trouble has been the easy way with which membership to the society could be secured. To remedy this evil and to make membership mean something more than it has in the past, certain qualifications will in the future be required. For the benefit of the new members of the college, we shall, before the first regular debate, publish a brief outline of the history and the aims of the society, together with the qualifications for membership...
...others to give way to them at that time, and to try to make the day as pleasant and memorable to them as possible. Men who courteously yield their rooms to seniors this year, will be able, when they become seniors, to ask rooms for themselves with better consciences. Certain it is that, as seniors, they will have need of extra rooms for the entertainment of their friends and if now they help to keep up the old custom, they will find themselves later more likely to profit...
...There are certain necessities in connection with university work which it is well enough to bear in mind; and the first of all necessities in the university, as in the heavens above us, is order. Order has been said to be Heaven's first law, and certainly it is the first law of a good university. There are two ways of securing good order in a university. One is what may be called the old way of tyranny, of an absolute government, of a government by the proclamation to the students of a code of rules declaring precisely the things...