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...patron who wished him to figure upon the cost of building a house of given proportions. Such an estimate could be prepared without very great trouble by the treasurer. The boat club is no new organization, and the legitimate expenses of maintaining the crew are not wholly unknown. The figures of former years are at hand and can be of some use in making an estimate. If it were only the custom for the college to demand, and the treasurer to furnish such an estimate each year, there would doubtless result much benefit to our purses. The treasurers would take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/13/1885 | See Source »

...stated that the appeal made by the brass band for more candidates will be answered by the students, and that the trial of candidates next Thursday, will bring out some hitherto unknown performers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/11/1885 | See Source »

...perfectly innocent, in the way, but in case they are bent on evil purposes, the chances of success are too great in a large building like the Hemmenway Gymnasium. Sneak thieves have too often plied their trade there, and all efforts by the authorities to rid the building of unknown persons will meet with the hearty approval of the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/27/1885 | See Source »

...many, or more papers, which are of an inferior merit, than Harvard. The success which is vouchsafed to many of our contemporaries surely is not deserved by their merit. But the smaller colleges feel a just pride in their college publications, and lend them a support which is as unknown at Harvard as our publications are needy. If we cannot keep the field of sports against all comers or carry the pennant victoriously down the river, let us, by all that we esteem worthy, exhibit an interest in literary affairs, which cannot be deemed second to that of any other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1885 | See Source »

...only guess that the sturdy frame bore a great weight, and that those bleeding feet were dragged over many a terrible league, and that before he reached the great city, only to drop dead in the street, that resolute soul was convulsed with some awful agony. Unnamed and unknown, he will lie in the public pits of Pere Lachaise, and his picture will be added to those in the entrance hall. The fourth body is that of a young man, which was found naked in the river. Perhaps he was drowned while swimming; perhaps some sombre crime is involved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

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