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...business was the consideration of the petition for the extension of the Thanksgiving recess. By a very decided majority it was voted not to grant it, and furthermore to restrict the recess to one day (this year Thursday, Nov. 30). This will probably in future years also be the length of the recess...
...contract between Messrs. G. W. Pach & Bro. of N. Y., and the committee on class photographs of the senior class, has at length been signed. By its terms "sittings for all class portraits shall be made by the first day of Feb., 1883," and all groups, "mutually considered class groups, shall be made by the first day of June. 1883." Mr. G. W. Pach agrees to take in person all "out door and other class and society groups." With regard to the heliotype albums, the class agree that Mr. Pach shall receive "for heliotype albums $5, deposited at the time...
...manager of the Australian cricket players, who have succeeded in defeating almost all the elevens with whom they have contended, and who are now on their way home, states that their tour has been the greatest as yet undertaken, even surpassing in length the distance travelled by Gregory's team in 1878. They left Melbourne March 17, and are due in Sydney Nov. 16. During the eight months the Australians will have travelled 35,300 miles. The team undertook no fewer than ninety-eight journeys in England and Scotland, making an aggregate of 5,786 miles, and playing in twenty...
Daniel Pratt has at length unearthed the corner-stone of modern knowledge. He declared that "the unabridged dictionary is the most sane and valuable book in the world; that it is the key to every problem...
...matter of general congratulation for the whole college that at length the long-vexed question of superiority between the Crimson and Advocate is in a fair way of being settled. No more decisive way of putting at rest all disputes between the two papers could have been devised than the present one of a scratch race. The HERALD in advance tenders its sympathy and condolence to the defeated party. Long may the victor wave...