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...students have of deciding who shall pay for the oysters. Several students come in and sit down. One opens the book and all note what letter of the alphabet is the second in the second line from the top of the left-hand page. The book is passed to each student in turn, who cuts or opens to a new place. He who has the letter furthest down the alphabet from the letter A has to pay for the oysters...
...second part of Dr. Snow's "Outline of United States History" is in the hands of the printer and will be issued in about two weeks. The price will be 75 cents; or both parts $2.50. The book is not bound...
...eighteenth annual catalogue of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has appeared, with a statement of the courses of study and a list of the alumni and of the members of the Society of Arts. The number of graduate students is 14; regular students, fourth year, 19; third year, 29; second year, 57; first year 114; special students, 149; students in the School of Mechanical Arts, 57; students in the Lowell School of Practical Design, 91; total 530. Deducting 14 for names counted under more than one heading, leaves a total of 516 students...
...have appointed a committee on athletics, who have a general supervision over all forms of exercise. The watchword of the old system was arbitrary prohibition of a few who, presumptuously, avoided study for sport. The ideas of the new plan are, first, to induce every student to take exercise; second, to attain a high standard of average development; third, to establish a fixed position for college sports, and fourth, to allow no one to take part in any competition who will not be benefitted thereby...
...Glee Club concert will be given this evening at Fitchburg, by invitation of the Unitarian Society of that place. The members of the club leave Boston at 3 P. M. today, returning tomorrow. The parts will be taken as follows: First tenor, McCagg, J. S. How, Lilienthal; second tenor, Bailey, S. Eliot, Dorr; first bass, Richmond, A. G. Mason, R. F. Howe; second bass, Earle, Easton, Thorndike. The solos will be rendered by Messrs. Lilienthal and McCagg, and jodeling by Mr. Dorr. A dance after the concert is to be one of the features...