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...discussions. The faculty hoping to thus obtain a better understanding of the views of the students, and a better means of communication with them. The committee was given none but advisory powers, but its suggestions were influential in the conference and the questions were settled in a manner entirely satisfactory to both sides. As this plan had worked so well, it was thought best to make the committee permanent, giving it as before only power to advise...
...remarkably well done. However, one may regard the weirdness of the story, and the fancifulness of the plot, everyone will agree that as a piece of literary workmanship the book is almost perfect. There are some vague and rather meaningless sentences scattered through it, but all in all, the manner in which the story is written is beyond criticism...
...Club which accommodates about 500 people. Both nights it was crowded with enthusiastic audiences who thoroughly enjoyed the treat prepared for them. Both times the play was voted by them a success, and the actors, principals, and chorus, certainly did themselves great credit, singing and acting in a spirited manner. The Evening Post said in its account of the play: "No description can do justice to the performance, and it is expressing the truth but faintly to say that the large audience was deeply moved by it." All the New York papers spoke very favorably of the play. The party...
...changed from the "Continental" style worn by the first organization to one rather more modern. It was composed of a blue coat, white vest, white pantaloons, white gaiters, a common black hat, and white belt with cartridge box and bayonet attached. The officers were reinforced in the same manner, except that a sash took the place of the belt, and a chapeau the place of the hat. In the fall of 1812, a banner with the college arms on one side, and those of the State on the other, was presented to the company by the ladies of Cambridge...
...short space of time by any student, and which materially diminishes the amount of drudgery attendant upon lecture courses. "Punctuation and Capitalization," is the title given a text-book devoted to the especial consideration of these important branches of rhetoric. The subject is treated in an eminently practical manner. Both the above works are from the publishing house of J. B. Huling, Chicago...