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IN the hope of encouraging subscriptions, and more especially as an appeal for ready payments of the amounts already promised to Mr. Harwood, I beg to submit some explanation of the finances of the University Boat Club. For a series of years the system of expenses has been simply an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOAT CLUB FINANCES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

The last item credited as net debt is provided for by unpaid subscriptions to the amount of $1,347.50, as shown by the Treasurer's list; thus showing a balance of assets over all present liabilities of $963.05, which amount properly should stand to-day as cash in the Treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOAT CLUB FINANCES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

Without claiming infallibility in the matter of good taste in pronunciation, I am inclined to think that the New-Englander makes less culpable divergences from the accepted standard of usage than either of the first two classes, though, be it confessed, the Yankee occasionally falls into an opposite error of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROVINCIALISMS AT HARVARD. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

Now our dinner-tables here in Cambridge are not mirrors of etiquette, - perhaps it's a pity they are not. We do not eat our meals with that "repose of manner" which characterizes a diner-out and benefits one's digestion, nor is our after-dinner conversation of that prudish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TABLE ETIQUETTE. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

RADICAL changes in the management of the inter-collegiate contests have been found necessary, and now the whole affair is placed in the hands of a Board of Regents, chosen annually by (1) the students in the Senior and Junior classes of the colleges represented, (2) the Faculties of those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/9/1877 | See Source »