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Of the $600 required for the continuance of the Co-operative Society, $520 has been subscribed. Of this amount $50 comes from the fees of new members; the remaining $470 from the voluntary subscriptions of old members. This seems, on the face of it, to be a good showing. Only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1885 | See Source »

Eighty dollars must be raised before Monday next, or the society will that day cease to do business. There are three sources from which the money may come; from men who have not yet joined the society, from old members who have as yet subscribed nothing to the voluntary fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1885 | See Source »

As to the old members who have not already subscribed, nothing, probably, can be expected from them, except from those who have omitted to subscribe through negligence. Those who have intentionally given nothing have estimated, it is likely, the benefit which the society will be to them, and will not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1885 | See Source »

Elihu, the patron saint of the Yale Lit., philosophically looks out upon the foot-ball field, and thus discourses: "The recent foot-ball upheaval at Harvard has not passed by without shaking Elihu, though himself nothing of an athlete. As an outsider then, he has such a feeling of diffidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Word from Yale. | 2/10/1885 | See Source »

A pamphlet entitled "A Sketch of the University of Virginia" has recently appeared, from which we learn, with some astonishment, that of the gifts it has received since its establishment in 1819, amounting to $719,000, $653,000 have been contributed since the war-a fact of which the moral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/10/1885 | See Source »