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...persons who wish to join the club must send their names to the Secretary, No. 25 Holyoke Street, before the fall boating-season closes, in order that sufficient boats may be ready in the spring. Those who join this club, or any of the clubs now, will have the use of the boats for the next month, but those who put off joining until the spring will find that no places have been reserved for them, and they will be troubled by the lack of sufficient boats...
...trust, be brighter than the last one. For the new captain of the crew we can confidently promise that his sole idea will be the conscientious discharge of the responsible duties committed to his charge. He believes in having only those men in the boat who are (to use his own words) "heart and soul in the crew," and he will endeavor to find five men in the University who have, beside the requisite amount of muscle, a sufficiently high idea of the trust confided to them to exert themselves to their utmost both before and during the race...
...present window was executed by the well-known firm of W. J. McPherson & Co., and is the first purely mosaic stained glass window ever erected in this country. By mosaic stained-glass window we mean one wherein all the effect of light and shade is obtained, not by the use of paint, but by the sole use of various colored glasses so disposed that the effect is similar to most elegant mosaic work...
...second candidate, but these minorities work for their candidates, and in the general election both minority nominees are elected by the votes of the rival society and non-society men. Such a case is not only possible but probable; mutual disappointment to the societies must result often from its use, and the election of men whom their own fellow-members in society consider inferior candidates certainly will not result in our being represented by our best men. This is but one instance of the failure of the '75 system, and, were there space, others, of less vital importance individually might...
RHETORIC. Hill's General Rules for Punctuation, and for the Use of Capital Letters; Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric, Book 2 to Section 3 of Chapter 6; Whately's Rhetoric, Part 3; Herbert Spencer's Essay on the Philosophy of Style; Abbott's How to Write English Clearly, first twenty-five Exercises...