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Voted, That in the opinion of the board, compliance with the above requests will not necessitate the slightest deterioration in the present excellent quality of board, as the fixed expenses of running the hall would then be divided among a large number of members, and give more money for the purchase of provisions...
...nine hundred and eighty persons. This gives a seating capacity in the stand for twenty-three hundred and ninety-six persons. Along the Columbia avenue side of the grounds will be first-class open seats-having foot rests-for fourteen hundred and fifty persons. Another section, seating the same number, will be placed on the Twenty-fourth street side...
...storm, and unusually large number of examinations yesterday, kept a larger number of men in Cambridge over Sunday than usual...
...Nation pays the following high compliment to a Harvard professor: "Prof. Paine has written a considerable number of works for the concert stage, among them an oratorio, a mass, two symphonies and a concert overture; but none of these, in our opinion, equal in originality of conception and scholarly treatment his music to Sophocles' tragedy, which to our taste is the most finished specimen of musical workmanship produced in this country. . . Prof. Paine's music is his own. It has individuality of style, and his themes impress themselves on the memory at once, and gain a beauty by repeated hearing...
...number of Congressmen, with New York and Philadelphia capitalists, intend building a casino in Washington similar to Delmonico...