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...second change was that, "The word 'secretary' be inserted in Article II. after the word 'president,' and that the necessary changes be made throughout the article, and that the word 'secretary' be also inserted after the words 'president' and 'treasurer' in Articles III. and XIII., and wherever they occur." Thus the office of secretary was created by the board...
During the months of March and April the increase was slow, owing primarily to the fact that the society had just opened business, and secondly to the slight demand at that time of the year for the goods in which the society professes to deal. In the latter part of May and in June the opening of the tennis season, and the low rates offered by the society in tennis goods, caused a rapid increase in the membership, which was well sustained till the end of the year by the facilities offered for the sale of second hand goods...
...second-hand books, 10 per cent...
...carrying out of the above scheme will probably necessitate giving up the idea of class nines, for the second nine, reinforced as it will be by others who will begin practice in the spring, will include nearly all the good players of the college, and moreover there will hardly be room enough for more than three nines to practise on Holmes and Jarvis fields. This is much to be regretted, for class games would be of great value in bringing out new men and in keeping up a live interest in base-ball. Still these ends can in some degree...
...course the members of the second nine will have to keep in some kind of training, as any one of them will be liable to be called on to fill a vacancy on the university nine at any time. The work, however, will not be as strict as that of the university nine and so men may be induced to play in it who would not be willing to undergo a more thorough course of training...