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...Glee Club returned yesterday from their trip to Philadelphia. They were very enthusiastically received by an audience of several thousand. The performance itself was considered the best that the club has given this year...
Dartmouth has received a four thousand dollar scholarship, on condition that no student who uses tobacco shall receive any benefit from...
Crowell kissed the Bethany girl goodbye 'before a thousand people.'" - Kansas University Courier...
...most useful college is the one which has no dominant sect. At Harvard, where more than one thousand students are gathered together, there is no dominant religious sect, and the probability is that there will never be one. In this state of affairs it is manifestly unjust, and certainly impossible, to force any one set of religious views upon a community so divided in opinion. There are three types of American colleges, distinguished from each other by their religious policies. First, the uncompromising denominational college, in which graduates and instructors have been under one influence all their lives...
...therefore, the college charges for the light furnished the same price that the light now costs the students, namely, nineteen hundred and twenty dollars, or nineteen hundred dollars in round numbers, it will not only receive money enough to pay current expenses, but will have a surplus of one thousand dollars, which is five per cent on the original outlay, which is a very fair return on money invested. Add to these purely business considerations that you would be giving the students a far better quality of light than they now enjoy, and one which no vitiating effect...