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...these derivations are etymologically correct is more than I can say; perhaps some of our English-dressed swells can throw some additional light on the matter...
...will be placed a list of the present and past members of the Class of '78, together with the societies, clubs, and associations to which each member belonged during his Senior year; also the Commencement and Class Day programmes. No pains will be spared to make these lists absolutely correct, and as the book itself has now been thoroughly corrected, we shall have in the next edition as complete and accurate a guide to the College and to Cambridge as it is possible to make. The price of the new book will be one dollar and a half, and they...
...lack of space prevented us from commenting on the letter from Cambridge, Mass., to a New York daily quoted in this column. The correspondent from Cambridge entirely misunderstood Captain Bancroft when he wrote that "Harvard feels badly because Oxford has not challenged her rather than Columbia." We wish to correct this statement, which places us in a false position. No such feeling prevails at Harvard either among the men of the crew or among the students...
...efforts. The difficulty, however, seems to lie in a mistaken idea prevalent among dancing men, that if they invite partners for the German, bouquets are de rigueur, and the inconvenience of sending flowers oftentimes, no doubt, deters men from asking ladies to the assemblies. It is our desire to correct this impression as far as we can, using as our authority the assurance of many ladies that partners are all they demand for the evening. Full satisfaction will be given the ladies by the certainty they will not be left to ornament the corners. If they are kind enough...
SINCE the beginning of the term I have received three invitations from University 5. Whenever I want to inform a friend of the fact I am in doubt as to the correct expression. Ought I to say that I have had three summons or three summonses? The notices on the bulletin boards seem to sanction the latter form. Then must I say that I am summoned or summonsed? If I have received three summonses, it is only consistent to say that I have been three times summonsed...