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...nearly $2,000. Since then many changes have been made, greatly to the interest of the club, noticeable among them being the transfer of the boat-house property. At this time the management takes perhaps a justifiable pride in presenting the following statement, showing the club to be to-day...
...debt due to-day...
...last item credited as net debt is provided for by unpaid subscriptions to the amount of $1,347.50, as shown by the Treasurer's list; thus showing a balance of assets over all present liabilities of $963.05, which amount properly should stand to-day as cash in the Treasurer's hands. The probable expense for the coming race with Yale may be put down as $1,500, which should cover all the cost of boats, training, &c., for the crew themselves show a determination to the strictest economy. To meet this outlay of some $600 we have the promise...
...only other man who can be the possessor of text-books and nothing else. This is a grind of the narrow-minded sort, who studies all the time on the lessons which are set him, but whose mind is chained down to the recitations that he goes to from day to day. He studies French or German perhaps, and takes the highest place on the rank-list in those studies; but to read anything in either language besides what is read in class, is an idea that never enters his mind. For him, the finest library has no more attractions...
...dumb eloquence" that accompanied it. But the modern hero has the good taste to perceive that a display of rhetoric is not fitted to the moment, and that brevity must be the soul of his argument. It is on this one string that the novel-writers of to-day play their simple and natural airs, - and it is wonderful what a variety it furnishes, far greater than was ever produced by the complicated mechanism from which the old romance-writers ground out their dreary tunes. If the seventeenth-century novels give a true picture of the life of that day...