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...union there is strength, the social muscles of the University are developing finely. A number of new societies have been announced recently, and now two more are on the carpet. (The English Club has forsworn all foreign tongues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SOCIETIES. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

This society will be a valuable one. The number of dogs owned here will increase largely, and though the watchman is dismissed we shall not miss his valuable services. Perhaps the College will then be able to hire somebody to light the gas in the entries. Why will not some one bestow a fund for this purpose? It is probable that the Union will establish a hospital. This will be a great comfort to tormented chums, who can see to it that their persecutors spend the most of their time there. It is to be hoped, also, that after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SOCIETIES. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

...other styles itself the Y. E. S. C. Co. (which stands, we are told, for the Yard Electric Submarine Cable Company), and has issued a neat little prospectus setting forth its objects and wants. It is proposed between now and the next season to lay a number of cables between University and the other buildings in the yard. There will be a man always in attendance at the central station in University, who will send notice of probable cuts to all the buildings, notice of the probable absence of the monitors from prayers; will transmit notices posted on the bulletin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SOCIETIES. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

...that the steamers go close to either shore, and the current is unusually even in all parts. As for convenience to spectators, the course ends within five minutes' walk from the city. Besides the Norwich and New London lines of steamers and the tugs belonging to the harbor, any number of steamers can be chartered from New York to follow and keep up with the boats during the race. There is a carriage-road on one side of the river and the New London Northern Railroad on the other, and both in sight of the river. The Railroad once offered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGATTA COURSE. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

...deduction of eight is made for being absent or tardy at a recitation. It certainly seems that this rule will decrease the number of those who are tardy, but increase those who are absent; for if a person who has perhaps not prepared his lesson finds himself late, he does not at all relish the idea of going in and running the risk of receiving thirty-two additional deductions which the instructor can impose upon him, and so naturally cuts the recitation entirely, - a result most probably different from the one intended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RULES AND REGULATIONS. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »