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...figures used by the auditor in computing the price for this term, that the cost of board for January, and the few days of December which come into this term, was more than $4.28 (the reported price for December and January). Moreover, a settlement of accounts for last term shows that the surplus fund was increased out of money raised for bills payable. This leaves room for the conclusion that the cost for January and December was $4.28 while the cost for January was more than that - December, that is to say, may have cost less than...
...volume of bound music in the college library is a song called "Father Abbey's Will," which has a curious history. The words were written in 1730, and represent the various donations of Father Abbey, or, as the college records show, of Father Abdy, the originator of that famous system of "goodies" with which every student has since had experience. On the first page of the song are these words : "Cambridge, Dec., 1730. Some time since died Mr. Matthew Abbey in a very advanced age; he had for a great number of years served the college in the quality...
...class statistics of Yale for eleven recent years show 945 free-traders and 341 protectionists...
...other rules are similar to ours, excepting those which must necessarily be different on account of the number of boats entered, etc. The rules as a whole show judgment on the part of the framers, as nearly all the essential points are carefully covered...
...presence of such articles in the Magazine merely goes to show that the students' thoughts at Oxford run more in the same line than is the case at Harvard. There is no such diversity of interest as is shown by the very fact that American college papers are unable to find subjects that appeal to the entire body of students. As the Harvard publication desires to please its readers, it must resort to the only subjects of general interest - athletics and strictly university topics...