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The 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOAT CLUB FINANCES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

HOW different are the tests by which we try our friends' characters! What different standards do we form, and how variously do we apply them! A man's taste in pictures, in tobacco, in wine, and in society, all serve as touchstones, to be applied to him by one or...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS AND BOOK-CASES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

And now let me ask the reader to go with me to several rooms and examine the book-cases that we shall find there. The first room that we enter presents us with a small hanging book-case which displays nothing but a dreary waste of text-books. Such a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS AND BOOK-CASES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

IN some book on etiquette it is laid down as a canon that one ought never to invite to a dinner-party gentlemen of only one profession. If there are none but clergymen present, conversation will turn on theology; if lawyers make up the party, their chat will be of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TABLE ETIQUETTE. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

The good effect of the unusually long practice last fall can easily be seen this spring in the rowing, which is much better than that of a year ago; and if the crew can keep the immense advantage they have already obtained over their immediate predecessors, it will be a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREW. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »