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...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's hands. The probable expense for the coming race with Yale may be put down as $1,500, which should cover all the cost of boats, training, &c., for the crew themselves show a determination to the strictest economy. To meet this outlay of some $600 we have the promise...

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

...reader to go with me to several rooms and examine the book-cases that we shall find there. The first room that we enter presents us with a small hanging book-case which displays nothing but a dreary waste of text-books. Such a collection can belong to either of two men, and to which, the books before us belong, can easily be decided by a glance at the rest of the furniture. If the pictures are racing prints and ballet-dancers, if a string of champagne corks adorns the chandelier, and a rifle occupies a conspicuous place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS AND BOOK-CASES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

...Holyoke crew, as at present made up, is as follows; Brewster, '79 (stroke); Parker, '78; Willison, '77; J. A. Stiles, '77; Hastings, '78; Holmes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

...representatives who had met the committee laid the proposed compromise before the several bodies they represented, there arose questions of what was understood and what was implied, which left the exact result of the compromise a matter of considerable doubt. One of the societies, not to commit itself blindly, presented a plain statement of the manner in which they interpreted the intended working of the settlement, and made their acceptance of the terms depend upon the condition that assurances should be given that the rest of the class would do nothing to prevent the result they expected from being reached...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

...some book on etiquette it is laid down as a canon that one ought never to invite to a dinner-party gentlemen of only one profession. If there are none but clergymen present, conversation will turn on theology; if lawyers make up the party, their chat will be of a professional character; and if the dry-goods business is the only one represented, it is safe to say the guests will talk "shop...

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