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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...change in the price of materials would warrant. Meanwhile, there has been the ever present interest to be met at the close of each year on the loan given by the Corporation at the time of the renovation of the Hall in 1904, and the sinking fund to be set aside to pay off this debt. Early in the fall, when the price of board for October reached the high figure of $5.65, it was thought that this increase had been due to the fact that the transient tables were being run at a loss. Now this explanation has been...
...evident not only in the principals but in the many crowds. On the whole the acting, individual and concerted, was well above the standard of amateurs. This is all the more a matter for remark when one realizes that no more difficult task could imaginably have been set them than an interpretation of "The Promised Land." In comparison Shakspere would have been easy...
...date for the Junior dance which will be held in the Union, has been set for Thursday, February 18, the first Thursday after the mid-years. To avoid confusion in regard to tickets and boxes all Juniors, expecting to attend the dance, who are not at present members of the Union, are advised to join at once. Membership may still be charged on the next term-bill...
...subject without illuminating it; he has stood firmly for collegiate and civic righteousness; and so sane have been his counsels, so masterly his power of statement, that he not only commands today the attention of America, but he is honored by scholars and thinkers throughout the world. He has set an example to all by the simplicity of his life and by his absolute devotion to duty and the public interest. He lays down the cares of office voluntarily at the ripe age of seventy-five while 'his eye is not dimmed nor his natural force abated.' Indeed his temperament...
...prose story "A Woman There Was," is a study of a coquette, thoughtless but not all bad, and a sturdy unsophisticated rustic youth. The phases of feeling and the development of character are well set forth; but how could the young lady be "enclosed by her background," and what is a "perennial" sermon? The warning against believing all we read in newspapers, "The Tyranny of the Press," is timely. "From Clatsop to Nekarney" is a vivid and interesting description of a long walk on the coast of Oregon. The tragic story of the young musician Roderigo is well told...