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...with fairer prospects of success than ever before, since this year an attempt will be made to conduct it as far as possible on a "cash basis." The old policy of engaging papers before the subscriptions were paid has been abandoned, and the room was not opened till a sum had been subscribed sufficiently large to insure the payment of this year's bills. We hope that the present committee will be able to continue this business-like beginning. Now that the pictures have been removed, we hope that the College will not object to smoking in the room...
...therefore hope that, if the club officers have reason to think that $15 a year is too much, they will publish their figures and ask a reduction. At present, students have no right to ask concessions from him, since he is receiving less than a third of the sum he was led to expect annually...
...Communication between a Gentleman and his Trades-people." A student having taken this course would be prepared to write such a charming note to any one of his creditors, that he (the creditor) would not only cease asking him for the money, but would offer to pay up the sum in question on the receipt of another letter of a like nature...
...then agrees to pay off the mortgage on the Boat House, and to provide the building, up stairs, with some 200 lockers, five shower-baths, a bathing-room, and a reading-room. In order to carry out this plan, some $3,500 will need to be expended. A further sum of $1.50 will be needed from each member of the Clubs, in order to pay the interest on this money...
...been, and the lists for the coming year were as crowded as ever. But the pupils at Penikese come from a poorly paid class. However grateful for the privilege of studying at a seaside school of natural history, very few among them can afford to contribute even a small sum toward its support. On the other hand, the Professors, disinterested as they have shown themselves, can hardly continue year after year to give up their summer months, without any adequate remuneration, to this undertaking...