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COPIES of the first number of the present volume of the Crimson are much desired, and all who possess such copies, and do not care to preserve them, will confer a great favor by leaving them at Sever's, where twenty-five cents apiece will be paid for them...
...emphatic vote last week of the Board of Overseers against open scholarships means anything, it is that the existing scholarships shall be given to those actually and at present in need of them. With this vote to guide them, those to whom the assignment of the scholarships is in trusted ought clearly to understand and perform their duties henceforth, if, as it seems, they have not heretofore. By inspecting the list of scholarships published in the Catalogue, one cannot help believing that they were awarded exclusively according to the rank list, though not a single donor, excepting the class...
...full extent of his means; and we trust that the members of the Class of '80, who have always been so liberal in their contributions to subscription-lists, will not fall behind in subscribing to the Class fund, the last and most pressing call upon the liberality of the present Senior class. The fund is a class fund, for the purpose of defraying all future class expenses; and by the liberality of the subscriptions is shown the interest that the each man takes in the future prosperity of all the under takings of his own class. It seems a very...
These girls think that I know everything; they call me "Mr. Tournville" when I am present, but when I am absent, "Frank." I like to watch them as they sit making tatting, or crocheting " fascinators"; they can talk just as well as though their hands were idle. I dont know about that Faith; it seems to me that she is just a little too quick in her retorts. She advises me to be a humorist - could sarcasm go further? But she doesn't know as much as she ought to, for she asked me one day whether the college course...
...skin. The author - Richard Grant Black is his name - makes one or two unimportant mistakes with regard to the few original slang words in use here. Snab for girls, he tells us, is a Harvard word. He may be right, but I think very few undergraduates at present would know what it meant, and it is not to be found in Hall's "College Words and Customs," published here in 1856. Now, as Mr. Black himself says, "The college vocabulary is very slowly enlarged, . . . but once let a phrase become firmly established, and it is immortal." Such a convenient general...