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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...carpenters. However, he received me with dignified cordiality, and proceeded to give me points on his rooms. "Here, you see," he remarked, "these pictures are going to be hung in a row; they don't amount to much, but are handsomely framed, and I thought they would be first-rate to hang my medals on. Won't you propose me for the Art Club...
...Sophomore who asked for condensed water in the laboratory is taking his first course in chemistry...
...WISH to give two reasons why the attempt to force us to employ the janitors as scouts seems to me wholly unjustifiable. One would think that the reasons would be apparent to any honest and fair-minded man. In the first place, this move of the Bursar's is nothing more than an attempt, which might almost be called underhanded, to get from the students more money to pay the current college expenses than is given by the regular stated college fees. It is apparent enough that the janitors, regular college employees, are underpaid with the understanding that they shall...
...this is the first attempt to hold class races in the autumn, it is to be hoped that they will prove successful enough to be continued in the future, for almost any system is preferable to the old scratch races...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - "The Humbugs," which was produced at this house on Monday evening, is a clever adaptation by Mr. B. E. Woolf of a French comedy called "Les Faux Bonshommes." The piece is amusing and bright, and is well acted by the Museum company. Mr. Warren comes first with his impersonation of Peponet, a rich old man with two daughters, whom he wishes to marry as advantageously as possible. The plot of the piece turns on the complications which arise with their suitors. Mr. Barron fills the part of Edgard satisfactorily, and Mr. Wilson, as Bassecourt, is excellent. Saturday night...