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Prof. Shaler is to direct the search soon to be made of an alleged coal mine in the town of Mansfield. The coal near the surface is slatey, but it is believed that further down there is a rich deposit...
...referee shall notify the judges and the time-keeper of each club to meet him at such a time and place as he may direct and settle all details of the race...
Besides the direct advantages reaped by the members of the society, all the other members of the university, and, indeed, all the inhabitants of Cambridge, enjoy in common with them, the general fall in the prices of small stationery and like articles. For by the extremely low charges made for such goods as examination books and all kinds of paper, the society has forced down the prices in all other stores, so that instead of the exhorbitant prices which prevailed before the foundation of the society, and which in part led to it, there has actually prevailed among the retail...
...will not leave this subject without calling attention to the appropriateness of meeting the expense for repairs by a fixed monthly assessment, and the crockery expense, which bears a much more direct relation to the number of boarders, by an assessment per capita. The fund accruing from the two sources is treated as one, and is drawn upon at any time indiscriminately for repairs or for crockery. The crockery items this year have been: in October, $341; in November, $110; in December and January, $56. Even if it should be found that the crockery assessment is too large...
...charges made in the letter are grave, certainly, but I think that upon examination it will be found that they are from the pen of one of the graduates who interest themselves in college athletics without sufficiently acquainting themselves with the actions and policy of those who have the direction of these athletics. Of such men, I regret to say, there have been of late altogether too many for the good name of the college. The presumptuous ignorance and the appalling misconceptions displayed by the writer of this letter are truly astonishing, nay, one or two of his statements...