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...actual income, disregarding the amount brought forward from 1882, was $23.78.28, while the expenses, not counting the subscription to the new track, amounted to $1653.00, leaving , as I have said, net receipts of $725.28. This gives a promising outlook and will enable the association to repay in less than two years the $1000.00 which it has borrowed of the corporation to aid in the completion of the new athletic grounds...
Nightly, to one seated in the theatre, a wondrous spectacle is presented, and a spectacle, too, that would amply repay the curious any trouble of witnessing. Whenever the panorama of beauty and talent is on the stage, soloists sink into insignificance; chorus and music are alike forgotten, and the attention of every one is fixed on what are generally supposed to be the minor parts of an opera, but are so no longer. No; a revolution has taken place, and hereafter, thanks to the tender watchfulness of Harvard, the "supe" will be the great attraction. The examples of the success...
Sarah Bernhardt's creditors in Paris have appeared in court with regard to the recent sale of her jewelry. It has been shown that the amount of money received therefor is insufficient to repay the sum loaned thereon...
...that the arrangements should be settled in private," but that is impossible while Yale persists in publishing the correspondence of the two colleges. And, finally, he casts a most unwarranted slur on the character of a gentleman to whom Harvard boating owes more than Harvard can ever hope to repay; but this is quite in keeping with the character of the whole communication. I cannot close this letter without once more making a protest against the conduct of certain graduates, who, while taking an interest in the welfare of the college, for which we have, indeed, every reason...
...have examinations do any good besides fixing, though with a delightful degree of uncertainty, his rank, is for the instructor to return to every student his blue-book with corrections. This may entail a little more labor on the instructor, but the satisfaction felt by the students will amply repay the extra trouble. This is already done by some instructors, but the practice is not so universal as it should be. We hope that instructors will feel that the extra work will be appreciated by their students...