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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...easily be returned at once. If less than $600 is secured, co-operation is dead, we are all more or less out of pocket, and the college is disgraced by a failure. It will be impossible to put off settling up the affairs of the society to a later date than Feb. 3d, forasmuch as delay and running expenses would be in danger of leaving the society in debt...
...three meetings every winter and a field meeting in the spring. Tug-of-war pulling is one of their specialties, as several Harvard teams have found out to their cost. Social clubs and entertainments among the students are few. There is a glee club and orchestra, both of recent date, and two secret societies, to 2 G, composed of miners. and a chapter of the Gamma Sigma Upsilon, the civil engineers society. Hops at the gymnasium, a senior ball, and class suppers complete the slender round of amusement for the men of the Institute. The hard work required certainly turns...
...buildings of importance have sprung up within the last two years. The most important, the new school, is yet in an unfinished state, Magdalen and Trinity are greatly extending themselves, and a new college is nearly completed which will work great results in bringing old-fashioned Oxford up to date...
...this year there seems to be a lull in this species of vexation. Our sanctum is still the receptacle of communications complaining of examination rooms too hot, or of examination rooms too cold: we are still urged to continue the agitation of the plank walk question, but, up to date, we have not received a single complaint about the piano fiend. Can it be that the musical men have loafed more than usual this season? Or are we to believe that a spirit of forbearance has crept in among them? We are led to hope that the latter solution...
...large school, so general is the influence cast upon it by its many colleges. Few places are more ideal or better fitted for a large university than this same Cambridge, and it is thanks to the perspicuity of our ancestors that the University of Cambridge at the present date ranks among the first in the world. The fertile, low-lying plain, surrounded and traversed by the Cam, sets off well the dark mass of buildings with the famous stone bridge, from which the name Cambridge is derived. As early as the twelfth century, pale faced students, who burned their lamps...