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...society at one time "hired the old court house of the selectmen" for their meetings, and voted to "ask the faculty to pay, as usual, half the cost of heating and lighting the same." At a later time the faculty, at the joint request of the Institute of 1770 and the Harvard Union, repaired University 3 for their...
...very successful joint debate was recently held at Columbia by the three liteary societies, the Philolexian, the Peithologian, and the Barnard. The merits of the debate were decided in favor of the Peithologian...
...making these slips, to take the initiative and give the plan a trial. Both these clubs also contain the younger and more energetic of the instructors in their departments among their members. Will not the clubs, therefore, each appoint a committee of members and instructors, which, together as a joint committee, will supervise the matter and give the plan a trial? Let the committee receive and select a certain number of topics under which cuttings are to be arranged; for each topic provide a paper bag, in which the slips are to be filed, and arrange these bags in alphabetical...
...large frames in which are displayed the photographs of the unclaimed dead, photographs taken from the drenched corpses, as they lay upon the rude beds which the Morgue assignees to its guests. And such another collection of portraits the world does not contain. Death and Vice have become joint-editors in issuing this edition de lux. Each picture is numbered and has a description attached. Some of the corpses had been in the water a day, some a week, some-nobody knew how long. Some were clothed, some were naked; some lacked an arm or leg or head, some lacked...
...side it will be observed that the paper one is much lighter, stiffer, and of greater strength. Its lines are firmer and owing to the fact that the paper skin is varnished over its waterproofing, it presents a perfectly smooth surface to the water, unbroken by seam or joint. Nor does it warp or shrink in the sun as much as the wooden one. The paper canoe is also more durable, will last longer and stand harder knocks, because a shock which will only bend or at most cut a hole in it, will completely shatter a wooden...