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...Combination Concert in Sanders Theatre. Tuesday evening, was a success in all respects, and the receipts fully cover the deficit from the Symphony Concerts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

Estimated amply, the Yard contains 2 1/8 miles of gravel-walks, including carriage-roads. At present prices, sufficient lumber for a thirty-inch walk, of the above length, can be bought for $550, $600 would cover the new walks to Sever and any incidentals. If, then, the donation of the College Fund were made conditional upon spending $600 for board-walks, the purpose in view would be accomplished in a manner unobjectionable to the Corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...outsider put down their names, is suggestive. Men are ready enough to grumble, but when the time comes for paying, they hold back. We are confident, however, that we could have secured at least $250;-this would have provided twelve hundred and fifty feet of walks, enough to cover the worst places. We understand that the Corporation have under consideration a plan for putting down walks to a very limited extent. This is very well, so far as it goes, but they are needed to a very great extent, and the agitation will not stop until we get them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...press, we learn Muzzes Khin is about to publish a map of the course. As the artist will have some difficulty in following it, the usual crimson cover will have to be omitted on the score of expense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOMETHING TO ADORE; OR, THE HARE AND HOUNDS CHASE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...thousand other accidents, would be far more influential in determining the result of a game than they are at present, and therefore the skill on either side would not be fairly tried. The writer would probably discover by a trial that eleven men are barely sufficient to cover a field, and that if each man performs all that is expected of him, the game would be far more injurious in its effects than the writer thinks it is now. As to its being "a rude and brutal" game, it certainly is a rough game, but practice at lawn tennis will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

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