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...result, last year was the first really successful year of the society's existence. Basing their calculations on these results, the superintendent and directors decided on certain additions and enlargements in the business and work of the society, calculating on a membership of one thousand and five per ct. profit on transactions. But it turns out that they have a membership of only 790, with proportionately less transactions, and have retained but three and a half per cent. on the transactions. This, continued through the year, would leave the society with a deficit of about $1500. The whole machinery...
...valuable collection already owned by the school would be safe. 2. Many volumes would be transferred to it from the college library, to the great convenience and profit of the students. 3. The library would increase more rapidly than in the past...
...Sophomores will profit by the wise policy of their captain of last year in keeping four substitutes at work. As a rule the sophomore crews at Harvard loose a large number of the men who rowed in their freshmen year. Either they are wanted for the university crew, or they are obliged for various reasons to stop rowing after one years experience. The '87 crew, however, have at present five of last year's oarsmen, although six of their men are now candidates for the university crew. Fiske, the captain is rowing stroke this year. The crew rows as follows...
...under-graduates. An enterprising yanker kept the turkeys on the Delta and allowed the students for a small fee to shoot at the birds. He trusted to the inaccuracy of the collegiate marksmanship for the preservation of his turkeys and being very successful. managed to make a large profit on his investment. Col. Higginson writes that one of his earliest recollect s is of standing at his fathers gateway, on what is now Kirkiand street in Cambridge and seeing the forms of young men climbing, swinging and twirling aloft in the open play ground opposite." This open...
...which Harvard is particularly interested, for during the first year of its existence it was managed by Professor W. W. Goodwin, one of the original projectors and one to whom the school owes very much. This institution at Athens affords to all American students who are competent to profit by it the advantage of pursuing their studies in the heart of Greece, free of charge for tuition, and under competent direction. The school occupies a comfortable building in a pleasant quarter of the modern city, and possesses already an admirable working library of about one thousand volumes...