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...those who have not yet learned how to handle a lacrosse racquet; but it is needless to say that, unless a man shows interest enough to do the regular exercise in the gymnasium, he cannot expect that pains will be taken to teach him this later acquirement. Nobody need be discouraged concerning his chances of getting on the team, for six out of the twelve position are open. That is presuming that the old members will obtain their old positions. Of last year's team only Davidson, Griffing, Harvey, Harding and Drake will be back, but there are many promising...
...self-same custody into which it passed so soon as the ink of the signatures to it was dry, and in which, I may add, it will remain so long as it shall endure. Custody is a point the supreme importance of which will be recognized without the need of further remark from me. Thanks to permission courteously given, a facsimile of the full size of the original-some 17 in, by 20 in.- and in the very best style, is now being executed, copies of which will very shortly be procurable...
...offer general knowledge on every subject possible. The work is modelled after Stormonth's Dictionary and Chamber's Encyclopedia, though it will not follow the plan of either work closely. The price per volume will be, cloth, 50 cents; half morocco, 65 cents. The book will fill a great need and be a valuable acquisition to every library. As an inducement to subscribers, the publishers offer the entire set of thirty volumes for $8.50 to any one who sends in his name before March 1, 1888. After this date the price of the set will be $15.00. [New York: John...
...large sum of money was left by a millionaire for the purpose of founding a university at Worcester, in spite of the fact that both Harvard and Yale, two of the few American colleges which can lay a just claim to the title of "university," are grievously in need of financial aid. And now comes the report from a New York paper that "H. J. Furber, Jr., a rich young millionaire of Chicago, is preparing to found a large university in that city, and will devote $1,000,000 to the purpose...
...some records may be broken. The success of the Mott Haven team rests in a degree upon the success of these meetings, and it is the desire of the officers of the association that a large number of entries should be made. The Mott Haven team is in need of men to put the shot and throw the hammer-the object of these meetings being to develop such...