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...must be noticed that these resolutions are merely advisory, and must receive the confirmatory vote of the directors and the corporation before going into effect...
That a petition be circulated among the members of the university to the effect that they will join the association after the spring recess, provided the price of board does not exceed $4.25 per week. That if such petition be not signed by five hundred men on or before April 4th, the hall will not be opened after the spring recess...
...Strauss' "Merry War," the Neue Freie Presse of Vienna says: "The music is like the fire from a mitrailleuse; one melody succeeds another, and each one has its effect on the audience. The great charm of the music is that, although heard over and over again, it remains always fresh and fascinating. The airs are now common property, and are whistled, sung and hummed by everybody; street musicians and military bands play them, and at every ball one hears lancers, quadrilles and polkas taken bodily from the 'Merry War.'" The opera was brought out at the New York Thalia last...
...count as much as two well directed light ones. If the judges decide in favor of heavy sparring, then that kind of work comes up from year to year and the standard keeps getting lower, and men who spar well but light will not enter. Such has been the effect of the past decisions of the judges. In order to avoid this, men who are to act as judges should be selected from the undergraduated members of the association, and they should be chosen for their firmness in order to rule out any one who attempted unscientific sparring at once...
There is a notice hung in the dormitories prohibiting peddlers and beggars to enter the buildings. The notice seems, however, to have little effect; every day some of these people come to the rooms and inflict upon the occupants a long description of the merits of their wares, or an account of a mother who has been unable to do any work for ten or twelve years, or else the beggar relates how he was disabled in a steamboat explosion, or some similar disaster. A man actually presented us a paper not long ago, which on careful examination we found...