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...energy with which the Shooting Club has begun its work this fall. It is very desirable that we win the match with Yale this year and we are in a fair way to do so if the interest already taken in the club be kept up. This year we understand the number of candidates is fairly large, though the officers still hope that there are new men in college who can shoot, and will enter their names with the others. Practice shoots will come off this fall twice each week, while last year only one a week was held...
...understand that in our editorial on Memorial Hall, we misstated two things of which we had been misinformed and which we now wish to rectify. We were told that the Board of Directors had transferred this fall three club tables to the general tables, whereas it seems that last spring the Board had reserved three tables to be made general tables if necessary, but that it had not been found necessary to transfer them. We were also told that the Overseers had suggested that two more men be added to each club table, but the Board had refused...
This year the Board has transferred three more tables and increased the number of men at them. It is impossible to accommodate more men with the present facilities for cooking, yet the Overseers are desirous, we understand, of adding two more men to the club tables, which would leave to club tables only their name and enter a wedge toward general tables for the whole hall...
...however small that element may be. We dislike to take up again the same old complaints and harp in the same old lines. But year after year the great privileges which we enjoy at the library have been abused and reserved books have been deliberately and wantonly stolen. We understand that already reserved books have been stolen this year and from editions which are few and valuable. We enjoy a decided privilege in this system of reserved books which enables us to read the best works in literature and history and philosophy. That it should be abused so disgracefully casts...
...objectionable features are removed and it is yearly bettering its condition. It has proved an agreeable feature in the fall and spring concerts of the musical clubs, and it offers to its members, besides a pleasant fellowship, an excellent opportunity for practice which every musician must appreciate. Moreover we understand that there is a possibility of more concerts this year than usual. Therefore, since there are still many vacancies in the orchestra, the officers of the society hope that every instrument player in college will attend the final trial tonight...